Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Good Morning... and Goodbye! 1967

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Not as crazy as other Meyer films, but remarkably ends optimistically!

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  Vixen! 1968

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Perhaps Meyer’s most ascerbic and political film.

Popular reviews

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  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017

  ★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Strong performances and an interesting setup, but I found the script to be otherwise extremely annoying in its artificiality. A real tonal mess of contrivances and cliches.

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  Dostoevsky's Travels 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2023

  Obviously most of this is staged, but I love a good mockumentary. And often the hyperreal reveals more truth than a more traditional documentary.

  It feels like a Perestroika Borat; perhaps a little more sedate and serious, but equally absurd. Succeeds very well in exposing the disconnect between the Western Euro intellectual class and a typical glasnost era Russian citizen.

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