Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Departed 2006

  Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  Simply one of my favorite movies. All of our best Irish Catholics are in this, except for Conan O’Brien. He should’ve had a cameo.

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  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  This was beautiful? For a series in which in the 2nd one, Bridget spends half the movie in a Thai women’s prison, I wasn’t expecting to cry multiple times. When we meet Bridget again, she’s four years out from having lost her husband, and a few years from having lost her dad, as well. She’s trying to raise her two young children while her friends struggle to know how to guide her through her grief. But she’s ready to try…

Popular reviews

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  Tell Them You Love Me 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Jun 2024

  Compelling doc that doesn’t offer easy answers about disability rights. My personal interpretation: if he was truly communicating with her at the level she claims, he would have corrected her pronunciation of D-man.

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Jun 2024

  This is a lived experience for me (being maladaptively obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer in high school)

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