Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Polar 2019

  ★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Vibes and pacing are all over the place. Mads is burning up the screen but nothing else is on the same level.

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  Logan Lucky 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Delightful. A Fargo-ish sense of character and place, with Adam Driver’s dry delivery a personal favorite. We don’t see all the dominos being placed, and what we do see we don’t quite understand until later. But it’s satisfying watching everything go down and see the pattern that is revealed.

Popular reviews

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  Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Aug 2024

  As soon as the Carolco logo appears I’m right back in junior high, obsessed with the new frontiers this movie is revealing. But it’s not just nostalgia. The grin doesn’t leave my face even when the credits roll.

  This is a perfect movie. Not because I can’t see the seams after 30 years; quite the opposite. For all the praise this film gets as a milestone in visual effects, it’s the old-school technique that I appreciate: Texas switches, rear projection,…

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  The Killer 2024

  ★★ Watched 23 Aug 2024

  Looks like a TV movie, music is bizarre, and the action is mostly boring. I might have enjoyed it more if it had been an original film with these same actors, but in comparison to the original (or, frankly, to any Mission:Impossible movie, including Woo’s) it can’t hold up.