Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Torment 1994

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  This is Chabrol at his most masterful — everything from the pacing to the editing and the camera work is so efficacious in creating an atmosphere and telling the story. Along with the great cast — and their performances, this is a masterclass on how to make a tense, exciting movie that works from start to end.

  I really think that everything about the movie is great, but if I had to pick one specific detail it would be the…

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  Being Maria 2024

  ★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  I got to meet Matt Dillon at a Q n A in New York for the movie. He kept going on and on about how great the original movie is and Brando’s great performance, while trying not to sound insensitive and I couldn’t help but laugh. He was nice and the experience was really fun.

  Anamaria Vartolomei is also very pretty

Popular reviews

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  ½ Rewatched 27 Jul 2024

  Way to ruin a franchise..

  The nihilism of the Wolverine and Deadpool is soul crushing and constantly being shoved down our throats (I mean how many people are they going to kill without batting an eye, or how many times is one immortal character going to gore the other immortal character) but is then occasionally contradicted with moments in which we are meant to care for these same characters and/or their families... As I watched the movie I felt more…

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  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Feb 2025

  After watching Mishima’s insurrectionist scheme unfold I asked myself why the hell he fused all these conflicting forms of ideological and psychological extremism into the passion of a hardened, blood thirsty imperialist. It is almost comical until you see how extremists like this can actually gain massive influence and make fundamental changes to society and the world (Mishima attempted but ultimately failed to do this at a significant scale). I think it all comes down to his need for self…