Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Jul 2022

  It’s insane how well this film works and how many future franchises have tried to play these same exact beats only to fail miserably in their execution. Spielberg’s direction of the action set pieces in this film is unhinged! The vehicle sequences had me constantly thinking about the Mad Max franchise- specifically because of how well edited, energetic, and inventive everything felt. Tons of visual cues in the action are direct callbacks to Raiders of the Lost Ark, but everything in this…

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  Moulin Rouge! 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Apr 2022

  It’s basically Eyes Wide Shut for theater kids

Recent reviews

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Love how this subverts your expectations from the first moment you meet Benji. A deeply meditative story on how we process and deal with trauma. Even though everyone comes from a similar, unifying identity and trauma, each person’s response to that is drastically different. And in a lot of ways, nobody is “doing” it wrong. Everyone has the right intentions and is processing the moment the best they can, despite what other members of the group may think. 

  This is…

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  SNL50: The Homecoming Concert 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  this concert has huge “I guess this is everyone being inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame this year” energy

Popular reviews

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  The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Jan 2022

  Sounded so beautiful in the IMAX theater and was lovely seeings this with a full crowd cheering and laughing. A perfect end to the Get Back documentary and a legendary last performance. It’s insane how close this was to not happening and how underprepared The Beatles were for this performance. There’s so many bits of dramatic tension, the timing of the police is so comical you’d have to think it was planned. Really in awe of the energy of each…

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  According to Plan: The Making of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' 2006

  Watched 19 Apr 2023

  Super solid behind the scenes documentary. It’s an almost impossible task to depict the negative parts of a production this size when Disney is funding the doc and has final cut. 

  This doc gets into a ton of production issues: the script not being completed when they started filming, the volume water tanks not being completed in time, multiple days where the weather was too harsh to shoot in, as well as an incoming hurricane completely stopping production on the…