Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  We Live in Time 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Oct 2024

  I managed to not know anything about this one going in, so I was not prepared to be as sad as I ultimately was, but at the same time I respect that it managed to actually have a relatively light tone for the subject matter throughout including some legitimately funny moments (and Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield deserve a ton of the credit for that). I probably struggled a bit as I was watching with the choice Almut makes and…

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  The Apprentice 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Oct 2024

  The performances were certainly worthy of the Oscar nominations, and because of that, the film probably should have focused a bit more on that stuff. The Apprentice is at its best when it is focusing on the Trump-Cohn relationship and just how formative it was for Trump. Unfortunately, as the film goes on, it focuses a bit too much on some of the more sensational aspects of Trump’s story that we already know about while getting away from some of…

Popular reviews

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  Molly's Game 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2017 2

  I was a bit worried that the novice film critic in me would be unable to really evaluate Aaron Sorkin as a director independent from his writing. However, I think I was able to discern some of the distinct choices he made as a director, which for the most part was not a good thing.

  One of the fastest ways to get me to tune out of a movie is to have an ongoing voiceover. While I suppose this is…

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  Face/Off 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jul 2017 1

  What a fun film.

  Once I got into it and saw what the conceit was, I got super excited and thought, "Wow. This was Nic Cage's original Adaptation." (His performance in that movie is one of my favorite performances by anyone ever). Then, to my surprise, I soon came to realize that it IS John Travolta's "Adaptation." He is so fucking charismatic and every time he was on the screen after the face swap I was having so much fun…