Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★ Watched 05 Dec 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  May December 2023

  ★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2024

  Brilliant acting, brilliant use of a score. Camp. Deeply complex film. Life keeps going (badly) even after these horrible moments… they can extend, become comic, tragic, etc. It’s wrong to even call them “moments.”

Popular reviews

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  The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets 2018

  ★★ Watched 05 Feb 2021

  This is o.k. I liked some of the writing, but other times it felt clunky and pedagogical. The visuals reminded me of a lot of student films I’ve seen in my BFA program, which is o.k., but didn’t really impress me.

  The message is one I mostly agree with, but it’s not something completely new to me as a museum worker. And I didn’t think they made the argument anew or more compelling. I did appreciate the story of the…

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★ Watched 05 Mar 2022

  Really an homage to current violence of the status quo without saying anything. I did not enjoy the script. Unintentionally funny at times. I did appreciate that, although being a gritty movie, the colors weren’t ALL blue, there was SOME orange. Maybe in 5 years we can add another color from the spectrum.

  
  Edit: there seems to be some sort of conflict between self pity, self obsession versus altruism, higher morals; especially in the scene between the Riddler and Batman but the script couldn’t support it