Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  Affected me physically and emotionally. Essential score. It always feels premature to include a movie or a performance as one of my favorites after the first viewing, but that said, the Felicity Jones hj scene is probably among my favorite performances ever.

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  Apocalypto 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  Sick

  Mel Gibson is the man.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtuBP0NvjZo

  Jaguar Paw's pregnant wife was so beautiful. Don't @ me I'm just expressing myself. I would've killed many men for her.

Popular reviews

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  Presence 2024

  Watched 02 Feb 2025

  I thought the performances in this were very, very cool* and found its climax compelling.

  *More specific descriptors that come to mind: organic, lived-in, naturalistic (but I repeat myself?), daring

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  Blood Diamond 2006

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Very affecting. I thought about my own death for the rest of the night, which I think is a compliment to the film. Ballsy too, with excellent craftsmanship. Leo prob should’ve gotten the nom for Billy Costigan over this but he’s tremendous as is the rest of the cast.

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