Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Tampopo 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Nothing I can say that hasn't been said before. A movie is a love letter is a really good meal-- makes you feel warm and a little sleepy and satisfied.

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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Do you even know how badly you have to fumble the chemistry of the leads to make a movie that heavily features smoking, fingers in mouth, and affairs for me to not be super compelled by it? Pretty badly. Like really pretty badly. 
  Babygirl has moments of near-brilliance for me, but on the whole falls rather flat. I don't particularly believe Samuel's allure, I think a movie about two people flailing their way through an affair as they begin the…

Popular reviews

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  Hundreds of Beavers 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Dec 2024

  For probably 15 years, or as long as I've been able to articulate a sense of taste, it has been essentially a pipe dream of mine to have a bunch of people I love in a room, and they say "we should do something fun right now, hey, Conn, isn't there that one movie you like?" 
  And then we put it on and everyone has a good time and no one seems bored or unhappy and instead we all love…

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  My Cousin Vinny 1992

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2024

  It's not that I don't believe they don't make movies like this anymore. What I will say is that this is the kind of deeply charming movie that I somehow can't see coming out this year or next year or for a good handful of years on either side of the calendar date, and there's no real reason why-- the dialogue is a mile a minute and full of one-liners that could reasonably be written now. The storyline is unusual…