Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Glengarry Glen Ross 1992

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  When we say “they don’t make em like they used to,” what we mean is: “they don’t make enough movies with stacked casts and pretentious scripts that just give people an excuse to absolutely cook for exactly one hour and forty minutes.”

  Everybody is great. Lemmon is transcendent. 

  Direction is careless and pretty weak; editing is pointedly bad (you know, it’s not a law that we have to see the face of every actor when he’s speaking… especially if it’s a fast-paced dialogue where the rapid cuts between close ups make my eyes hurt). Still, this is a bona fide classic.

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  Heretic 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  GENRE MOVIES WITH IDEAS ARE ALL I’M ASKING FOR. 

  Smart and careful script, excellent crafts and performances, that lovely blend of predictable and unpredictable… if you can’t forgive a few small seams here and there, you’re a curmudgeon. Loved it.

Popular reviews

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  September 5 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  “I’m sorry I sent you out there, I can only imagine the things you saw.”

  “I saw nothing, I was there with hundreds of people. We stared into the night. We were waiting for something to happen because we wanted to take a picture of it.”

  This is a monster movie and the monster wins. Lots of controversy surrounding the relationship between the timing of this film’s release and the post-October 7 landscape in Israel/Gaza. I can’t speak to that,…

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2024 1

  Really a magnificent film. It asks you to hang with it—the anxiety dream in the first act is overwhelming—but if you do, you discover its ambition not just to show us ourselves but to say something about us. I found it moving and exciting and provocative. The very end doesn’t *quite* pay off the scale of what came before, but it’s inventive and—because the movie has been fighting all along to embrace ideas even in the midst of surreal spectacles—it…

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