Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Different Man 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2023 5

  Not to be hyperbolic, but I think... this might be one of my favorite movies of all time.

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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★★ Added 2

  The Killer left me relatively cold the first time I watched it, in that way that a movie can be technically perfect and hit its marks with unerring accuracy, but doesn’t elicit more than an acknowledgement of the good work on display. But now a month on from when I initially saw it, I realize that its rhythmic precision and meticulous perfection has sort of lodged itself in my brain.

  In a sense, I think the movie is making a…

Popular reviews

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  Soul 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2020 4

  Our reasons for living are so much bigger than our passions, and sometimes it’s easy to forget that.

  A movie that feels like it’s giving your life force a recharge. How Pete Docter can build worlds that feel limitless in scope and scale, stretching as far the imagination will take them, but succinct and carefully crafted in function is beyond me.

  P.S. - One day I will return to you, NYC.

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  Inside Man 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Dec 2020 3

  A movie clearly set in post-9/11 New York that has none of the hallmarks of reactionary, panic-ridden post-9/11 cinema. C’mon, this is a good time. Spike’s pretty upfront about establishing this as a bloodless, fairly low-stakes (action?) heist thriller, so then he just uses his A-list cast and studio budget to make a slick, clever popcorn movie, prone to deviation and silliness.

  Also, maybe the only movie ever where a main character coughs *multiple times* but the movie never acknowledges…

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