Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Visit 2015

  ★★★½ Rewatched 25 Mar 2025

  This is why you don't call your Grandpa 'pop pop'

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  Last Breath 2019

  ★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  A pretty incredible story wrapped up in a pretty mediocre documentary.

Popular reviews

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★½ Watched 26 Aug 2020

  Somehow both hopelessly exposition-dense and incomprehensible at the same time. Tenet is the most Nolan-y Nolan film yet, a sci-fi spy thriller devoid of compelling characters or meaningful stakes. In a mostly plodding two and half hours of underexposed, generally muddy filmmaking, somehow very little is revealed or accomplished besides rehashing much of Nolan's typical pre-occupations including elaborate metaphors for filmmaking and artistic production, and a desire to put it all on the line for cherubic off-screen children.

  John David…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Apr 2024 1

  I honestly don't think that some attempt to Trump-ize the central conflict here would have worked. As some kind of cautionary tale about the creep towards authoritarianism and empire, I think the film would be politically burdened and fail its loftier ambitions, though that's very clearly the film many wanted from this. The film we actually get is deeply invested in the question of its own neutrality, on whether the act of depiction implies a moral stance. By framing the…