Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Minding the Gap 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  I Vitelloni meets Thrasher magazine. A heartbreaking but hopeful story of three Rust Belt skaters tiptoeing into adulthood.

  Top 10 of 2018

Recent reviews

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  The Rat Catcher 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  “Wes Anderson is here tonight for The Grand Budapest Hotel. As per usual, he arrived on a bicycle made of antique tuba parts.”

  — Amy Poehler

  Wes Anderson Movies, Ranked

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  Till Death 2021

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Not bad, but if this was 1997, I would have just gotten home from school. I would be on my couch, eating Chips Ahoy! cookies and watching a much different Till Death. It would have starred Elisabeth Shue or Alicia Silverstone. The husband would have been played by Gary Oldman, the villain by Tom Sizemore and his little brother by Joaquin Phoenix. They would have shot it in Tahoe for $35 million with Joel Schumacher directing. I would have seen it at least five times on various HBO channels. Show me that movie.

Popular reviews

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  Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Nov 2022

  Is the docuseries good or is the story just too sensational to be bad?

  Probably somewhere in the middle.

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  Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Sep 2024 2

  After my mother began working for HBO in the mid-'90s, I snagged a front-row seat to a renaissance of guys like David Chase, David Simon, David Milch — a strange number of Davids — and other auteurist heavyweights reinventing American television. Netflix did it again in the 2010s, and many said we had entered a so-called Golden Age of Television, but that age begins and ends with the Cable Era when HBO, Showtime, Starz and AMC went toe to toe…