Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  This fucks. 90 minutes of John Le Carré - style spy craft by way of Howard Hawks. Soderbergh is at the top of his game. The entire ensemble delivers. Koepp’s best original script? Strong rewatchability. Tight pace, no wasted space. Great humor. Smart writing. So strong structurally, excellent punchlines. Romantic relationships like a tinderbox - but uniquely - ah I don’t want to spoil it. But

  I will say it’s so tempting for writers to release tension by just going…

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  The Killers 1964

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Movie stars a not-so-young Ronald Reagan doing what he did best: being a greedy supervillain. 
  A neat framing device in concept if not quite in execution: two ruthless hitmen fulfill the detective role, investigating the mystery behind the murder they’ve just committed- who hired them, why did this person pay them so far above the going market rate, and why was their victim so chill about it as they carried out his murder?
  Though Lee Marvin rocks top billing, this…

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025 1

  whomst amongst us hasn’t gotten lost in the sauce on occasion

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  Love Lies Bleeding 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2024

  A 4-star movie tbh but I loooooved this- even being familiar with the trailer, never could be certain how scenes would play out, what would happen.

  Killer fucking soundtrack, complex well composed inter-character relationships and a stellar color palette of set design, location work, lighting, costumes, and make-up. Great cast, singular vision of crime and grit

  Love gets fucking ripped