Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Duellists 1977

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  The version of this on amazon didn’t have subtitles and was impossible to hear so i pulled up a pdf of the script to have while watching. Interesting way to experience a film lol

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  Clue 1985

  ★★½ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  Not half as funny as i remember this being but still, they dont make em like this anymore and i appreciate the fun camp we get here and there

Popular reviews

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  Phantom Thread 2017

  ½ Rewatched 13 Sep 2022

  It's hard to pin down why I didn't enjoy this movie but ive been thinking about it since ive been watching lots of PTA this year. I understand that it is technically well made and well acted but as someone who loves period pieces, tension, dysfunctional relationships, textiles and mushrooms, I was still disappointed and bored by it. It only felt dead and empty and cold, and maybe that was kind of the point? But I don't think so based…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★ Watched 13 Aug 2023

  The culmination of the trend of inspiring commercials that aren't just about the thing it's advertising but about community and family and love and life and heartbreak and growing up....There were a lot of good jokes that we laughed at, the musical bit was fun and I love Ryan gosling but the speeches about what it means to be a woman/human made my teeth chatter. I wonder if Don draper would have seen the meta angle of "constantly talking about…