Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Sicario 2015

  ★★★½ Rewatched 15 Feb 2025 2

  The Cult of Sicario: GOP Rhetoric, Aimless Political Violence, and Implications for U.S.-Mexico Relations

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Feb 2025 2

  Earlier this week I told an interviewer that this was my favorite, and the most quotable, movie. Got the job.

Popular reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025 2

  Seigs suggested a Stephen A Smith livestream of future conclaves. Pomp, circumstance, things of this nature.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  I still don’t know what to make of this. In many respects, technically brilliant. In many others, sort of flat. Brody and Pearce killed; Jones was not right for the role, which was poorly written anyway. 

  Is it Zionist? Is Israel the only place for Jews to escape antisemitism—a necessarily hardened, concrete and iron shelter from the storm of discrimination and hatred swirling outside? Or has Zionism co-opted antisemitism, using millennia of oppression to justify the construction of a brutal,…