Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Out on a Limb 1950

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  How does Donald control those pruning shears so well, that's mad impressive

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  Trailer Horn 1950

  Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  Let the poor duck enjoy his vacation

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Making a 200+ minute film feel like 90 minutes is insanely impressive, the intermission definitely helped with that, but it can't be just that. The first half is incredible, 10/10, no notes. The second half went a very different route from what I expected, some pretty baffling narrative decisions honestly, although I definitely don't want to call it bad, but I was kind of emotionally removed from a lot here until their reconciliation and the final speech. I think I…

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  I think what elevates this from "just" a really great biopic to such an incredible film is that Robbie himself made this happen, that he didn't care about how people would react to the monkey thing, that he put so much money in this, not caring that it would likely flop, and most importantly not shying away from showing his own darkest sides, his biggest mistakes and how he hurt the people he loves. It's such a raw and emotional…