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Favorite films

  • Jaws
  • Baby Driver
  • Elf
  • Sorry to Bother You

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  • Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

    ★½

  • Jumanji

    ★★★½

  • Hidalgo

    ★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

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  • Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

    ★½

    I want to know what drunken Christmas party this movie was written at…and the dimension of the bets lost by each actor who participated in the making.

  • Jumanji

    Jumanji

    ★★★½

    Is there a word to describe the nostalgia veil over a movie with positive childhood associations?

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  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    ★★★

    (Written by a kid who studied Latin in high school so my sense of roman epics is a bit skewed)
    The first 5 minutes of the movie got me so excited because the acting was amazing and almost entirely without dialogue. While continuing to watch it seemed like the dialogue was too contemporary for the historical context and distracted from the scenes. Maybe this would’ve been more successful as a silent film, the dialogue did nothing to carry the weight…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    Finding the hill to die on and fighting to build a palace atop it: Brutalism.

    2 1/2 hours of intellectually stimulating conversation and story building + 1 hour of ugly truths with the backdrop of early 20th century capitalism.

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