Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Eephus 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  baseball is just so special: there’s nothing else like it. props to Cliff Blake as Franny, who turned in a lovely performance and inspired me to actually learn how to score this season.

  seasons change, the sun sets, and all we have are moments in time. and maybe that’s all we ultimately need.

  Q&A screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

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  The Conversation 1974

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Dec 2024

  chanting “now THIS is how you compose a shot” for 114 minutes straight.

  what if we… kissed at the security and surveillance convention?

  screening at Alamo Drafthouse

Popular reviews

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jan 2023

  sitting back and luxuriating in the fact that Kubrick simply isn’t familiar with the concept of a half-assed shot.

  35mm screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★½ Watched 20 Jul 2023

  too self-aware and heavy-handed for its own good. punctuating the patriarchy montage with a trifold of Stallone draped in furs was a masterstroke though.

  screening at Landmark Kendall Square Cinema