Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Always in awe of how Miyazaki and co. are able to create such imaginatively rich and spiritually restoring films without ever talking down to the viewer. Ghibli films are a treasure that live up to their fame.

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  Floating Weeds 1959

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Didn’t know Ozu made them this spicy.

Popular reviews

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★½ Watched 08 Apr 2020 2

  This film is a ridiculous portrayal of the life of a musician which I just can’t even begin to take seriously. As Richard Brody of the New Yorker stated in his review (which I recommend) of the film, “The movie’s very idea of jazz is a grotesque and ludicrous caricature.” This movies very idea of MUSIC is a grotesque and ludicrous caricature. I don’t even know where to begin with all of the problems I have with this film...This film…

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  A Hidden Life 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 May 2020 1

  “They look up and they imagine that if they lived back in Christ’s time they wouldn’t have done what the others did. They would have murdered those whom they now adore...”

  In Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamozov (I know this is a review of “A Hidden Life:” trust me, I will tie it all together) there is a section where two characters, Smerdyakov and Grigory, both conceited and self assured in their positions, argue over the morality of denying faith in Christ…

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