Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Django Unchained 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  Roger Ebert wrote, “I'm not sure that such a thing as a perfect film exists, and I doubt if a film can be both great and perfect, since in order to be truly great a filmmaker has to try things he's not sure about and go places where he doesn't know the way."

  I completely agree with him and it makes me feel like a fuddy-duddy to dock a full star for the third act, but you could remove it…

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  The Conversation 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2025 4

  My favourite 70s paranoia thriller and one of the great cinematic marriages of form and content.  It’s just amazing how the movie first evokes the feeling of peeping into someone else’s life from the outside (along with Harry) and then gradually makes you feel like you’re trapped inside Harry’s subconscious, looking out.   Hadn’t seen it for a while but wow wow wow.

Popular reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2025

  Gotta love any movie that says it’s cool to be married. Sexy, stylish, smart, and pleasingly compact.  My jaw hit the floor at the end when I found out David Koepp wrote this.   Could have sworn it was Pinter.

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  The French Connection 1971

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  This movie spits nails and craps thunder and it always will.