Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  PlayTime 1967

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Dizzying.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Sleek, stylish, banger score, banger outfits, banger interiors, note-perfect cast, old-school spy games and character-rooted dialogue for the current geopolitical era in a way that gives the plot some real extra oomph instead of feeling like a cursory hat-tip, and really really funny in a completely unobtrusive way. 

  The trailer misled me (and I fear has misled countless others), never bet against Soderbergh.

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

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

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  Priscilla 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2024

  Truly all-time stuff from Spaeny. I thought this was a brilliantly balanced display of tenderness and empathy (for Elvis too! Perhaps too much!) and then it just ends! Just runs out of road. It’s unfortunate because it’s so immersive (especially thinking about the budget Coppola was working with) and the soundtrack, a product of its circumstances as it is, is so brilliant. I’d never heard the Dolly Parton “I Will Always Love You” before! Was nice to see Elvis costumed in more normal clothes!