Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  i have been craving a catholic church mystery movie really bad this week for no apparent reason and i’m really glad this exists so i didn’t have to watch the da vinci code.

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  Collateral 2004

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025 1

  tom cruise walks a fine line halfway between his characters in Magnolia and Tropic Thunder and his typical action roles in Mission: Impossible and Top Gun and it is the fucking perfect mix.

  he was put on this earth by the scientologist intergalactic warlord xenu specifically to play vincent in this movie.

Popular reviews

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  Moneyball 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025 1

  i’ve come up with a mathematical model that’s going to change the way movies are made forever: brad pitt + smoldering + looking pensively into the distance = good movie.

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  Chernobyl 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Nov 2024 3

  My dad, who has two masters degrees in eastern european studies, has enough knowledge of the civil war to be a tour guide at any battlefield, and is generally a massive history nerd, maintains that no matter how much we learn, we can never reach the level of understanding attained by experience. Whether it’s the great depression, the beaches of normandy, the cold war, or covid, the only people who will truly know these things are those who lived them.…