Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Virtue 1932

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Dec 2024

  Delicious dialogue. Perfect, tidy little pre-code. Loved it!

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  The More the Merrier 1943

  ★★★ Watched 14 Oct 2024

  The walk home is the hottest thing I’ve seen.

Popular reviews

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  I Love You, Daddy 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Nov 2022 2

  The movie was awkward in the initial 15-20 minutes, but found its footing when we observe the first conflict between Daddy and Daughter. The movie is interesting because it asks two profound questions: I like Woody Allen, but what if he wanted to fuck my daughter? I like Manhattan (1979), but what if the 17-year-old character was my daughter? These questions and questions like it show how far men are from acknowledging the humanity of women. Ok, perhaps having a…

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  Faces 1968

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Oct 2021

  A diptych of women and men responding to old age and illicit love affairs in different ways. She’s racked with guilt and tries to kill herself with sleeping pills. He gets drunk, enjoys his mistress, and wakes up singing the next morning. Boccaccio writes in the beginning of the Decameron that men have developed simple ways to divert their melancholy, whereas women suffer, pine, and brood. A man externalizes his sadness and insecurities, he satiates his self worth with his…