Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  We Bought a Zoo 2011

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Zoo status? Bought.

  This one makes me proper emotional, even if weird Elle Fanning freaks me out

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  Platoon 1986

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  I’m in Vietnam. Obviously I was watching this.

Popular reviews

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  Ali 2001

  ★★½ Watched 11 May 2024

  Cringing at how many letterboxd comments are probably just Oscar jokes.

  Opening 20 are slick, fast and energetic - everything you’d want from an Ali biopic.

  Unfortunately the pacing goes from weak to weaker and the movie by far outstays it’s welcome. 

  Filled with fantastic performances, but suffers from a bloated runtime.

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  Manchester by the Sea 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Aug 2023 1

  Another review said “it’s a tragedy that never lands” and I couldn’t agree more.

  Two solid hours of sadness and repression with no real let up - I expected this film to shatter my heart and yet the moment never came.

  The sadness of Manchester by the Sea is not of the events themselves but rather the fact that the sadness is never truly acknowledged - there is no “what were they like” or “he would’ve been proud of you”.…

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