Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  On Ice 1935

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025

  Just classic.

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  Mickey's Delayed Date 1947

  ★★★ Watched 15 Jan 2025

  Michey needs to get his act together.

Popular reviews

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  Death Defying Acts 2007

  ★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2020

  So this film has 12 year old Saoirse Ronan in brown face... so that's a thing.

  Sure it's a historical piece, but the use of it feels entirely unnecessary and it fails to really create any social commentary from it. The act they're performing in context could just as well not have employed a ton of racial stereotypes, or it could have drawn on its imagery more to make a point.

  As for the film, it's a bit of a…

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  Scenes from My Life 2020

  ★★ Watched 11 Mar 2020

  I guess I'm the lowest score on this short to date.

  We get a couple of these every year at the festival I serve as a jurist on. Home movies cut together into an emotional montage with very little in the form of cohesive story or thesis or anything to really make them engaging for a stranger. This is better than most of them, but at the end of the day we're always faced with the question of "Would I…