Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Analyze This 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Try being Italian and not loving this… impossibile!

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  Closely Watched Trains 1966

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I haven’t watched this in over a decade. Still great.

  This and Daisies are the pinnacles of the Czech New Wave.

Popular reviews

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  La Chimera 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Apr 2024

  I feel as though I just woke up from a dream. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. La Chimera belongs to everyone, it belongs to no one.

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  Popeye 1980

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  What am I, some kind of barnacle on the dinghy of life?

  Genuinely shocked that this has such a low rating on here. Sure, the last quarter of the movie is messy, and it would be hard to catch a lot of Popeye’s little asides without subtitles, but what does it matter when it’s all so cute and funny and strange? 

  Shelley Duvall has never been more adorable, which is saying a lot considering her role in Brewster McCloud.  I…