Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  As classic as it gets. Better with every rewatch.

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  The Founder 2016

  ★★★ Watched 15 Jan 2025

  Very by the book, but Michael Keaton will always be one of my favorite actors. Hard not to be entertained by him in anything.

Popular reviews

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  Crime Story 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jul 2020

  Jackie Chan using a gun! Yeah, this is definitely not a typical Jackie movie and doesn’t usually get mentioned as one of his better films, but I really enjoyed it.

  It’s refreshing to see Jackie in a more serious role and in a film that, at least by his usual standards, is fairly dark in tone. This is played straight pretty much all way through without much slapstick comedy and I think it works. Jackie and the rest of cast…

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  The Big Heat 1953

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Sep 2020

  One of the nastier film noirs I've ever seen.

  I won't spoil any specifics, but the violence here is surprisingly brutal. With many classic films, what was once shocking becomes almost quaint in comparison to modern cinema, but I honestly can't say that's the case with The Big Heat. Fritz Lang and screenwriter Sydney Boehm pull no punches here and it suits the film perfectly, giving it a dark edge and an uncertainty that elevates the story.

  Contains a pretty…