Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  I'm Still Here 2024

  ★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  shockingly right wing for a movie about resisting fascism

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★ Watched 29 Jan 2025

  kind of shocking how placeless this movie which is ostensibly about place is. every exterior shot could be happen anywhere. philly doesn’t look at all like philly, new york doesn’t look like new york, and even the meadows/forests in doylestown feel and look  completely wrong. a better movie would have made use of being shot in the place the characters have emigrated from, but this movie is so superficial and linear that it doesn’t even bother - the eastern european shoot location is just an excuse to not pay the workers

  getting a second star because felicity jones is so good

Popular reviews

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2025

  as a person with a lifelong phobia of chimps, i was expecting this to be hard to watch, but the monkey won me over

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Nov 2023

  i kept expecting this movie to fall into either schlock territory or cynical meanness - which it could very easily have done - but it toes the elusive line between the two effortlessly. giamatti reminds me so much of my dad it’s alarming

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