Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Chilly Scenes of Winter 1979

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  Joan Micklin Silver crafts a tender, wonderfully realized anti-romantic comedy about one-sided infatuation, emotional maturity and unfulfillment in life that is at turns witty, raw and melancholic with the never been better John Heard and Mary Beth Hurt.

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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.

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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