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Favorite films

  • War and Peace
  • Adaptation.
  • Mera Naam Joker
  • Local Legends

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  • The Insider

    ★★★½

  • Secret Honor

    ★★★★

  • One Man Up

    ★★★½

  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

    ★★★★★

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  • The Insider

    The Insider

    ★★★½

    The layers of journalism that they packed in here is staggering. At one point Bergman takes a break from breaking the unabomber story to break a story to the New York Times about how the story that he broke for 60 Minutes never got broken.

  • One Man Up

    One Man Up

    ★★★½

    A story about a man with a complicated relationship to seafood in need of validation.

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  • The Death of Yugoslavia

    The Death of Yugoslavia

    ★★★★½

    Recommended by my Macedonian friends to shut me up when I wouldn’t stop asking them about Yugoslavian history. 

    Would give Milosevic and Tudjman zero stars if the app would let me.

    The films greatest asset, that it was produced during the fall of Yugoslavia with incredible access to major actors and back-room conversations (I mean, they had real footage of Central Committee private meetings), turned into its only flaw. What started as a sweeping exploration of the rise and cancerous…

  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch

    Halloween III: Season of the Witch

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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