Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Rosetta 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025 1

  Rosetta

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  Palindromes 2004

  ★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025 2

  I didn’t really get down with this movie’s demented vision of childhood. Q&A with the director afterwards wasn't particularly informative. Once again, audience laughter was a big, irritating problem

Popular reviews

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  Wendy and Lucy 2008

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025 2

  Wendy and Lucy was the first film that Max Callimanopulos saw in New York City, at the beginning of what would be a fruitful and occasionally fraught time there. He said that the film was “good,” and privately admitted that he felt some kinship with Michelle William’s character, a drifter living on the edge of society. Years later, he spoke fondly of Wendy and Lucy, describing it as “a funny little movie about two women living in a rundown house…something…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025 3

  Not as bad as certain friends of mine had led me to believe, but clumsy and sort of uncalled for.