Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  This Is Paris 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Feb 2021

  I've always regarded Paris Hilton as an exceptionally driven person and wondered "driven to what" - it's very clever of the film to start with that sort of abstract question then answer what she's driven from instead.

  It's easy to highlight several striking, almost offhanded details of Paris's curious magnetism, spilling a purse-full of $100 bills or the towers of her abandoned MacBooks, both of which vaguely remind me of the alienating excess in Citizen Kane. I was most moved,…

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  Persona 1966

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Nov 2020

  A Classic that I was embarrassed about not having already seen until this point: I usually expect most movies I feel that way about to be like homework, but this held my attention, entertained, delighted, and shocked me in all the right ways.

Popular reviews

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2020

  Nice Valentines Day Viewing. Saw this in Black & White. The film put a fawning and/or devilish smile on my face for most of its runtime.

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  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2020

  Extremely compelling, extremely languid, extremely ambivalent, and above all else Glamorous.