Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Se7en 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Just watched the 4K UltraHD 📀—it looks so good! While I maintain that the most disturbing aspect of the movie remains the ABSOLUTELY CAVERNOUS size of the character’s apartments, I’ll never not love that, not only is Richard Roundtree the DA of Los Angeles, he’s the DA with a gold tooth. Was this originally set in NY? Because Brad and Gwyneth’s pad is supposed to be so close to a subway that it rattles everything when it goes by, but…

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  The Last of the Mohicans 1992

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Dudes. Fucking. Rock. The wife—A VERY NICE LADY—was out of town and visiting family for the weekend. So I ordered some lamb vindaloo from Agra Taj Mahal—the best Indian food in Greenpoint!—popped this on, cranked up the volume, and vibed the fuck out. Plus a slice of cheesecake from Martha’s Country Bakery didn’t hurt things at all.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ½ Watched 24 Dec 2022 1

  Between this and Ambulance and Everything Everywhere and some others it’s been quite the year for maximalist movies. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but might not be a good one too. Felt like I always had Damien Chazelle‘s number. He was that kid you met in film school who’d saddle up next to you and, unprompted and without blinking, would tell you all about his favorite movies and you’d be all “that’s kinda interesting but kinda odd…and what’s this…

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  The Forgiven 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jul 2022

  This was so good and easily one of the hands-down best things I’ve seen so far this year. Huge fan of anything John Michael McDonagh does, whether it’s one of his stone-cold bangers (The Guard) or one of his disappointingly meh flicks (War on Everyone). Seriously, few know how to acerbically depict louche bourgeois excess quite like he does in this—is a damn shame he never got to adapt Edward St. Aubyn‘s Patrick Melrose novels. Instead we got stuck with that unwatchable dogshit version from Showtime. Anyways, his shit is so fantastically arch in a pitch-black comedic way that only the finest English and Irish storytelling is.