Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Slick, very Soderbergh, and talky.  You’re either on its wavelength or you’re snoozing.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  The “zaniest” performance award for Pattinson and Ruffalo.  Definitely operates on a ticklebone wavelength.  Not my intimacy, but it was fun.

Popular reviews

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  It 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Aug 2017

  It's about time a clown reclaims the throne in a big budget Hollywood production! Stephen King's classic reawakens on the big screen with layers of fun, chills, gruesome images, laugh-out-loud moments, and an emotional warmth. "It" is a lot of things, but the director understands the backbone of a great narrative film that allows the audience to, first and foremost, care about the characters and their innocence.

  Because I have not read the book or seen the original adaptation, I…

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  Love Hard 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Nov 2021

  The fact that this premise is normalized here… gives me quite the mixture of emotions to unpack as an Asian-American male.  Is this therapy or comedy?   It’s charming and hard not to like.

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