Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Happy Together 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Cigarettes. Sofas. Beds. Lamps. Waterfalls. Lighthouses. Love. Anguish. Heartbreak. Hatred. Love.

  I've seen just three of WKW's films now, you'd think I'd be used to this but thankfully I'm not. The cinematic language he speaks will never not feel like a revelation to me, I can be sick with the flu on a Saturday afternoon and be reborn in a theater, he does that for you. Part of me wants to learn why that is, part of me is too content with the feeling of experiencing this magic for the first time over and over again.

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  Steve Jobs 2015

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  arguments between Great Men, references to dylan, joni mitchell, and beatles, an unflinching deference towards the power of the american institution... aaron! you're doing it again!

Popular reviews

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  No Other Land 2024

  Watched 24 Feb 2025

  I can't help but come away feeling significantly more pity for those who perpetuate this evil. As much as I've read and seen about the genocide, it's nonetheless sobering how unprepared I was for how disconcerting the cruelty on display in this was. The only thing on my mind while watching and what I'll continue to think about for some time is the incongruity; humans should not be able to do this to other humans. School me on the realities…

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  Casablanca 1942

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jul 2024 1

  Love sacrifice! Love Ingrid Bergman! Love love! Quite good, this one.