Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Red Beard 1965

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Of the ones i’ve seen (ikiru is a huge blind spot for me) this is Kurosawa’s most humanist film. Very Tolstoy. Absolutely wonderful.

  I liked a lot of the first half but what really sold me was what happened after the intermission. All the stuff with okuni was so beautiful.

  not sure if this is my fav kurosawa (the bar is so high) but i really loved it

  Toshiro Mufaine is so god damn charismatic

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  Big Trouble in Little China 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  One of the great character intros of all time: Jack Burton scarfing down a sandwich while driving and shouting into his radio

Popular reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Dec 2024 1

  If you handed the printed wikipedia page and a playlist of early bob’s biggest hits to the tim robbins character from The Player this is the movie he would’ve come up with.

  Timmy is great, perfected the mannerisms. very much a Performance performance but that’s so bob. he’s a bit of a gremlin. everyone else is really solid. since 50% of this movie is *reaction shot of someone listening* the performances have a lot of weight to carry. shout out…

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  Singin' in the Rain 1952

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Nov 2023

  “He’s so refined. I think I’ll kill myself”

  I want to live in Gene Kelly’s smile