Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Palm Springs 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Apr 2021

  The most thoroughly enjoyable film I have seen since Parasite. It should win a screenplay Oscar. What a ride

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  Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder 2019

  ★ Watched 24 Jan 2021

  Even dumber. Loved it.

Popular reviews

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  The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012

  ★½ Watched 07 Mar 2013 1

  There's really nothing wrong with this movie except that it suffers from being so terribly generic and unoriginal. There's nothing in here that I haven't seen played out a hundred times or more on screen--the teen angst, a damaged protagonist who feels like he doesn't belong, discovering music, finding your place--and this film offers nothing to set it apart from those scores of similar stories. No standout performances, no great writing, nothing.

  That being said, it's not a terrible movie.…

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  Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Dec 2015

  I can't get over how good the new generation of resistance characters are. I want to watch them go on adventures together until the end of time. They're amazing, and they absolutely MAKE this movie great!

  That being said, it has tons of problems story-wise. Things that made me cringe. Things that made me say to myself, "Wait, what? Really?" And there's a fine line between homage and just recycling things from older movies, but this film was so shockingly…