Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  North by Northwest 1959

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Nov 2024

  This whole movie happened because they underestimated how well a 1950s ad executive could drunk drive.

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  Demolition Man 1993

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Aug 2023

  Sly's Total Recall. Not as good or as sharp as that movie, but does enough things successfully to be really fun and stupid-smart in an endearing way.

Popular reviews

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  Detour 1945

  ★★★★ Added

  Gnarly, ichorous, in a hurry. 68 minutes! Left in a pot to reduce until all that was left was charred and black, and yet still somehow a great dish.

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  Under the Skin 2013

  ★★ Added

  Defies rating. For something like this to succeed, you need to open yourself to it – to make yourself vulnerable to it. Unfortunately for me, Under the Skin depicts the likely death of a toddler in the first 30 minutes, and does so in what is – to me – a gratuitous and manipulative way. As someone who *has* a toddler, let's just say I wasn't predisposed to let this film anywhere near me.

  It has some spellbinding images. It conjures an intense…

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