Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Metropolis 1927

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2024

  “Where are the people who built your great city, father?”

  “Where they belong.”

  “But father, what if one day… one of them is really hot?”

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  Soul 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2020

  Fun fact: Ryan Gosling spent three months learning how to play the piano so that he could actually perform all of the music in this film himself

Recent reviews

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  Edward Scissorhands 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  The first two thirds of this film is just a lovely whimsical vibe machine. Then there’s a rather abrupt tonal shift when it turns into a tragedy, which I’m still kind of chewing on. 

  It’s really interesting to be 31 years old and watch, for the first time, movies that had such a big impact in people’s adolescence and now hold a nostalgic place in pop culture.

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  Chicago 2002

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Imagine if Renée Zellweger had come to fame during the lip filler era

Popular reviews

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  Ed Wood 1994

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Aug 2024

  Seen at Film Forum followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Larry Karaszewski, moderated by Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein

  One of the best Q&As I’ve ever been to. Larry Karaszewski is hilarious, and there was such a joyous mood throughout the whole theater. Bruce Goldstein kept gushing about the film (he introduced it as the greatest ever movie about making movies), and he didn’t seem to want to stop taking more audience questions. Everyone was just there on…

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  Charlie's Angels 2000

  ★★★★ Rewatched 05 Oct 2024

  This movie is getting dangerously close to my four faves