Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Man on Fire 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  I had no idea the Tony Scott and Denzel version was a remake! Blown away— and with Scott Glenn and Joe Pecci no less. How did I not know this? There’s something to be said of the 70’s and 80’s grain, texture, and warmth. And there’s  a scene featuring Pecci singing an acoustic rendition of “Johnny B. Goode”— it’s amazing. I’m probably gonna have to go read the novel these films are based on now. I think Malle outperforms Fanning…

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  Robin Hood 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  I will never get sick of watching peak Russel Crow run around and kick ass in leather, tights, and chain mail.

Popular reviews

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  Pig 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Dec 2021 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2024

  Every part of Poor Things is spectacular: the dialogue, the acting, the cinematography, the practical effects, the makeup and costumes, the story … everything. Where The Lobster highlighted Lanthimos’s narrative creativity, and The Favorite highlighted his camerawork and artistic collaboration on coloration and costume design, this film takes the best of both and smashes it into a new Dark-Wonka Barbie-Frankenstein mosaic. I feel an impulse to watch it and rewatch it over and over again, to explore it with the same curiosity Bella Baxter takes with her into the world.