Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I did not think I’d like this so much. The trailer was fine at best, something about the way Cate Blanchett says black bag on top of the fact that I didn’t know what black bag meant put me off a little. But now if Michael Fassbender is weird and clinical in anything, I’ll watch it, I guess. A bottomless well of weird guy-isms, that fella.

  Black Bag is a good movie. Really understands what audiences get out of spy thrillers.…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Not a lot really digs into how I sometimes feel like Mickey 17 does, and it does that while being silly and blunt and beautiful. Makes me very happy, and very sad. Robert Pattinson does a funny scream, too, it’s pretty great.

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Thought this was one of the best modern movies. Sounds like a generalization but I mean it. Loved it, loved Mickey.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 24 Feb 2025

  I mean, talk about every frame a painting. This movie looks really good.

  The Brutalist wasn’t what I expected. I didn’t really have any expectations, honestly, but they weren’t this. The first half is pretty simply good and well done, then the second goes a bit off the rails (💥), in a way that was great, messy, unconventional, and a little terrible. At a certain point I felt like I lost touch with these characters and some of the heart, but…