Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  Still has me on the edge of my seat.

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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  Airplane viewing. Hello Boston!

Popular reviews

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  The Swearing Jar 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Sep 2022

  More Adelaide Clemens please! 
  I was all in from the opening song and it never let me go. Yes, it travels the borders of sentimentality, but I rather like that sometimes. Clemens was so grounded, vulnerable, and genuine that it anchored the film in the present moment for me. I think the filmmakers executed their film beautifully.  
  Plus, Kathleen-fuc'n-Turner showed up to play.

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  Fourteen 2019

  ½ Watched 03 Jan 2021

  “... and then somewhat really early in the conversation, their eyes glaze over. And that’s it, everything you say is wasted.”
  
  How was this film so well received? The acting is, frankly, terrible. I could organize an impromptu table reading (of this numbingly banal screenplay) with my friends and it would be exponentially better. Which is to say, I should have spent an hour and a half talking to my friends instead of staring blankly at my television wondering why I continued…