Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  A successful if unlikely middle ground between LOTR and Dr Seuss that peaks, as it should, in the finale

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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  Turns studio 3C into a nostalgic dollhouse. Hagiographic and heavily scripted, a careful facsimile of liveness

Popular reviews

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  Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jun 2018

  Vivienne Westwood's  son says at the end of the movie that she was a lifelong punk, and the only true punk. I believe it.

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  Terri 2011

  ★★ Watched 16 Jun 2021

  I wanted to like it, but was mostly uncomfortable. Nice performances.