Favorite films

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  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  Richard Brooks's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play is a scintillating and emotionally palpable drama that refuses to allow the Hays Code to stop it from being a provocative psychosexual family drama or a tremendous acting showcase for Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives.

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  Presence 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2025

  Steven Soderbergh lends his hand and eye to a sharp, purely experimental and deeply harrowing psychological drama in Presence, a ghost story that's rich in atmosphere and searing human drama while making efficient use of its POV technique and David Koepp's script. Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan and Callina Liang are fantastic.

Popular reviews

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  Time of the Apes 1987

  ★★ Watched 23 Sep 2018

  This could have all been avoided if only Johnny had cared.

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  Stop Making Sense 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Jul 2018 5

  Stop Making Sense is the best movie I saw this year and one I can see myself watching over and over again.

  I've listened to Talking Heads before, but 2018 was the year I really got into them. It was also the year I discovered that they had made this movie and that David Byrne had directed True Stories, which I had the good fortune to watch on Filmstruck before it shut down. My favorite albums would be True Stories,…

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