Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jul 2023

  Only Greta Gerwig could pull this off.

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jul 2023

  Sure, it was complicated, but I didn't really care enough about the characters to try figuring it out.

Popular reviews

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  Citizen Kane 1941

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2023

  Truly a masterpiece. First-time director Orson Welles somehow managed to perfect all the filmmaking techniques classic Hollywood had developed to that point, while collaborating with cinematographer Gregg Toland to push the bounds of what film cameras could do, setting the tone for both the film noir and nouvelle vague styles.

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  Broken Blossoms 1919

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2023

  It's absolutely wild a film so controversially anti-racist at the time of its release can still be so unbelievably racist. While Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl features a sympathetic Chinese title character and cinema's first interracial romance at the height of the "Yellow Peril", it features yellowface and just about every Orientalist trope and cliché you can think of.

  But the racism isn't malicious in intent, and the film is technically brilliant. Director D. W. Griffith applies…

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