Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Heartbreak Kid 1972

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  "There's no deceit in the cauliflower"

  I can't believe I'd only known Charles Grodin as "the dad from Beethoven" for my entire life, up until today, when he had this legendary role in the bank all along (no, I haven't seen Midnight Run yet either).

  The Heartbreak Kid is a fantastically painful film experience. I'm pretty sure this features the worst honeymoon of all time. Grodin plays an ultimate representation of male impulse - immediately acting on every little desire…

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  This was simply way better than anyone in the press made it out to be.

  Yes, the musical numbers are the weakest and most unnecessary part of the film, but there are much less of them than I expected. The fact that Todd Phillips made this freakshow of a movie exactly the way he wanted, without conforming to anyone's rules or expectations regarding what a musical should be, or what a comic book movie should be, offers a lot of…

Popular reviews

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★ Watched 14 Mar 2020 1

  Though the trailer did not speak to me, I began seeing all the rave reviews, and more importantly remarks from friends whose tastes I trusted, along the lines of, "it's beautiful- you will cry", and "...might be the best movie I have ever seen".

  Well, I must say that not only do I not understand how someone would see this as one of the best movies they have ever seen, but I can't even comprehend how anyone would enjoy sitting…

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  The Public Woman 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2020 1

  I am so grateful my girlfriend pushed this movie on me. Zulawski's POSSESSION might be my favorite film of all time, but I'd never seen a trailer for this one, so I hadn't yet thought to check out his next film following 1981's Possession, which is this, The Public Woman.

  Now, Zulawski himself claims that he was asked to direct this movie by the producers who wanted to do an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel "The Possessed", but I am shocked…