Favorite films

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  The substance of masculinity and raising children in the bethlehem-slouching 2020s is not groundbreaking, but Adolescence's style of micro-scale focus, documentary-quality naturalism, and episode-length single takes elevate it to a compellingly uncomfortable degree.

  If you're as unfamiliar with the cast as I was, so much the better.

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Suitably creepy first act that eventually runs out of steam, a common result when many influences get tied together for a hard run at being more than the sum of their parts. Enough to like, too little to love.

Popular reviews

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  Gunpowder Milkshake 2021

  ★★ Watched 14 Jul 2021 3

  This script desperately needed another pass. A few good action scenes and candy-coated set design can't save a half-baked aspartame rush of a story that's neither as smart nor as funny as it wishes.

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  The Apple 1980

  ★★½ Rewatched 20 Jun 2021

  This is one of cinema's rare wall-to-wall fiascoes, as if Provident films made a Black Mirror musical in 1980.

  The ambitious and lunatic sincerity of The Apple, equal parts cautionary tale and dystopic pandering probably needs to be seen to be believed.