Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  L.A. Confidential 1997

  ★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025 1

  A terrific noir film through and through. Three distinct cops are entangled in a case that just doesn't add up. With differing motivations and a host of unassuming clues, they decide to team up and uncover the deep mystery at the bottom of it all. What I loved about it was how confident it was that the journey was worth the destination. It's a hard noir detective movie, through and through, one that makes the villains obvious, but the path…

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  The Prestige 2006

  ★★★½ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025 3

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

Popular reviews

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  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 2008

  ★★ Watched 22 Oct 2015 5

  I don't enjoy calling films exploitive, but The Boy in the Striped Pajamas never does anything to deserve the emotional weight it throws on at the end. This 90 minute film struggles to create enough purpose just to get to the single twist. For the majority of the movie, I was just bored. Its a dull movie with uninteresting dynamics between any of the leads. The mother, father, soldier, the jewish boy, and even the leading kid all just exist.…

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  Paradise Lost 2: Revelations 2000

  ★ Watched 20 May 2015 1

  If the first movie taught me the dangers of inciting a witch hunt, this sequel film actually WAS a witch hunt. How the filmmakers misstepped so drastically is beyond me. Revelations seems like a very similar movie in the way it is paced and shot. It slowly gives out details, but this movie suffers from a lack of revelations to give to the audience. I was left with minimal updates to the case that didn't end up going anywhere. While…