Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Cinema Paradiso 1988

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 May 2023 1

  Now that’s what I call C.I.N.E.M.A

  Christ
  I may
  Never
  Ever see a
  Movie that good
  Again

Recent reviews

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  Late Spring 1949

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Noriko must’ve been stoned the entire movie the way she was always smiling.”Happiness comes through effort.” Man, truer words have never been spoken. Beautiful film. I had this terrible sciatica pain flare up today and this film made me forget all about it for two hours, so thank you for that, Ozu-sama.

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  Ball of Fire 1941

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  I’d let Barbara Stanwyck show me what ‘yum-yum’ is. What a delightful screwball comedy. I’m not surprised to see this was written by Billy Wilder — the screenplay has his fingerprints all over it. And then you have the Howard Hawks influence: Stanwyck’s Sugarpuss O’Shea and her gangster boyfriend. Yeah, it has a silly premise, even for 1941, but I liked the wordplay of it all… on account of because the premise is that Gary Cooper’s Bertram Potts is a…

Popular reviews

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  The Witch 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Apr 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  This was a fine film, no doubt about it. But it was far from excellent. Like Laszlo, my grandfather came over from Hungary after the war. Unlike Laszlo, he wasn’t a brilliant architect, nor was he Jewish, nor could he speak English. I never knew him because he died before I was born but, from what I’m told by my mother, he never felt like an outsider. Whether that was because he and his older brother settled in Canada instead…