Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  don’t have the words to describe how perfect this is at this moment. just watch it!

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  The Long Goodbye 1973

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  “what the hell? nobody cares!”

  a noir where the only way to solve the crime is to kill the supposed victim. a perfect film.

Popular reviews

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  Here 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2024

  cloud atlas in conversation with forrest gump. a sappy film about the trials and tribulations of being a white middle class boomer that can’t ignore what came before their story and after. it all began with those who lived there before being eliminated, colonialism is akin to the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs. essentially a movie about a world progressing rapidly to the same place it started, much like zemeckis, a guy who has been pushing the medium forward to…

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Sep 2024

  a little bit of lang, a little bit of godard, a little bit of the wachowskis, but undeniably entirely coppola. megalopolis is an expression of all that coppola believes about himself, his art, and the course of human history. 

  let’s start with adam driver. he’s giving a performance as good as any i’ve ever seen. in a film that is often scattered and ponderous, he is the glue holding it together. he has to be a sweeping romantic and a…