Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Apr 2022

  Best movie I've seen since the pandemic began, best movie I've seen in a theatre in atleast three years.

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  The Juniper Tree 1990

  Watched 13 Jul 2021

  Björkian

Popular reviews

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  Frantz 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2016

  Francois Ozon how do I love thee. Let me count the ways.

  1. Breathing new life into a play once tackled by Ernst Lubitsch.
  2. Anachronstic sensibilities, that include but are not limited to detailed costuming, classical music composition and gorgeous black and white cinematography
  3. Deeply conflicted characters whose level of cognitive dissonance is only matched by their state of wistful ennui.
  4. An ability to craft films that always come in under two hours, yet they slow down…

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  Manchester by the Sea 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2016 2

  Going to Sundance for the first time this year this film was definitely on my radar as a 'must see' film. Unfortunately it turned out to be an impossible ticket to get no matter how many times I went to the box office at 6am or tried to get a # in the virtual rush line.

  Along with Birth of a Nation and Swiss Army Man this was one of the most buzzed about films of the Fest, but unlike…