Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Social Network 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  There were 2 reasons why I avoided watching this admittedly well regarded film: Aaron Sorkin's script and Mark Zuckerberg's portrayal.

  I normally can't stand Aaron Sorkin's writing. To me his writing, "insists upon itself". I just find that his dialog is not naturalistic. But once I accepted that his screenplays are meant to be theatrical as opposed to natural, I was able to move past it appreciate the beauty of his (a little too crafted) lines of dialog.

  As for…

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  Law of Desire 1987

  ★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Gay film director dickmatizes two straight guys. I have a feeling that Pablo is Aldomavar's self-insert character.

  Seriously though, maybe my expectations were too high, maybe it was because I didn't realize until halfway through the film that this was supposed to have comedic undertones but it just didn't work for me. Too much "telling" and not enough "showing" especially when it came to backstories.

Popular reviews

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  Private Lessons 2008

  ★★★ Added

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

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  Dunkirk 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Nov 2024

  In any other filmmaker's hands, this could have easily been a straight forward war film, but Nolan being Nolan, he added a time element by crosscutting between 3 different timelines & it actually works.

  His decision to cast actors who were actually the same age as their characters added to the immersiveness of the film. We are so used to youthful twenty-somethings playing teenagers that its kind of jarring to see actual teens on screen, especially in a war movie.

  And…