Favorite films

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Apr 2024

  A clubby , EDM , techno score from Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross that functions like an adrenaline shot to the heart. Cinematography so incredible the audience is rendered delirious and exhilarated. A sharp and nuanced script from Justin Kuritzkes that beguiles. Dynamic direction from Luca Guadagnino that saturates the film with performances and sequences so delicious you have to bite your fist to stifle a verbal , visceral reaction. Challengers (2024) is a perfect film.

  One of my best friends ran…

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  Strange Darling 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Aug 2024 2

  Strange Darling (2023) is an unpredictable , thrilling , and ceaselessly engaging ride of a film. It is no doubt one of 2024's best gems yet—perhaps the most refreshing and no doubt the most exhilarating. 

  A GREAT screenplay that is sharp , focused , grounded , and wonderfully textured. A KNOCKOUT of a structure—its employment of non-linear storytelling deliriously delightful and totally gripping. STELLAR cinematography. Strange Darling is shot on 35mm film and is rightfully proud of what it achieves visually. DELICIOUS performances from leads Willa Fitzgerald…

Recent reviews

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  The Addiction 1995

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Delicious black and white cinematography often juxtaposed with a hip hop soundtrack as an underscore to the films sometimes erotic , always philosophical happenings. 

  Rebirth & reformation. Lili Taylor is beguiling. 

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  Manhunter 1986

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Undeniably stunning with a knockout musical score , but the pacing and narrative of Manhunter (1986) weigh on the film's potential to be great both consistently and in totality.

Popular reviews

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  The Passenger 2023

  ★ Watched 18 Dec 2023

  Can we get Kyle Gallner in some good movies now ?

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  Maestro 2023

  ★★ Watched 14 Dec 2023

  WHO ABANDONED SNOOPY IN THE VESTIBULE ?

  Made up by a self-indulgent 129 minutes—which feels more like six hours—which reek of Oscar bait and desperation , Maestro (2023) is an aimless , disorderly , admittedly-atypical biopic that tells very little about its subject but says volumes about the actor / director / writer who plays him. This film has a chaotic and detrimental lack of grounding resulting in time passing by with no events communicated visually , no context granted narratively…