Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Warfare 2025

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  A profoundly upsetting and deeply unpleasant watch (complimentary). Post-screening Q&A, Mendoza explained how the film was crafted from fragmented memories, which really helped click into place for me. I wish the movie had been more effective at translating that idea onscreen.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  70° in Chicago the Friday before St. Paddy’s and Steven Soderbergh has a sexy new spy thriller soundtracked by David Holmes in theaters, we are so fucking back.

Popular reviews

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  Air 2023

  ★★★ Watched 05 Apr 2023 2

  I don’t think I’ve ever been this disappointed by a movie that ultimately, I think I liked? On paper, this was made in a lab for me. Ben and Matt recapturing that Dogma magic against a nostalgic 80s NBA backdrop with a soundtrack that almost certainly came from Affleck’s personal mixtape collection titled “Dudes Rock”? Sign me the fuck up. But in execution, this plays more like a Netflix Wikipedia dump than actually having anything substantial to say about player empowerment.…

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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2023

  We gotta get this man out of that Netflix deal.