Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Coach Carter 2005

  ★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  Hits its big moments well, but there’s way too much going on in Coach Carter. Subplots drop off for half the movie only to pop up again when you least expect them, and the lockout that is hook of the whole film happens way too late and is the most boring section.

  The basketball choreography is goofy. Lots of unmotivated cuts to fans, coaches and benches, way too much of Junior Battle dunking and not nearly enough of any other…

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  The Big Year 2011

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Really solid. It’s not nearly as much of a comedy as its lead trio of actors would lead you to believe, but I think that plays to the film’s strengths. The screenplay makes time for a lot of really great character moments and really gives a sense for the scope of attempting a “Big Year”, and I loved all the secondary and tertiary characters that add life to the world along the way. As a niche hobbyist who can get…

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2024

  So beautiful and imaginative! I could have watched Bella and Duncan travel the world together for hours just to see all the amazing sets and the ways the former gets under the latter’s skin. Their constantly shifting relationship was one of my favorite subplots of the year, especially toward the end when Bella has clearly surpassed Duncan’s level of stunted emotional development.

  What’s holding this back from the likes of ‘The Favourite’ and the small handful of films I connected…

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★½ Watched 28 Nov 2023

  I’ll take an ambitious mess over a safe and competent film any day of the week, and I was pretty happy to chalk ‘Saltburn’ up as the former during its eye popping last scene and call it a day. The problem that I have found since is that the film’s provoking imagery demands your attention after leaving the theater, and the more I thought about the film as a whole the less I thought of its quality.

  A day later…