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Favorite films

  • What Happened Was...
  • Bubble Bath
  • Dogville
  • Yentl

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  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Vermiglio

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

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  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★

    Petunia Pig step on me

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    They're spies and they're in love!! 

    I'd say it succeeds as an espionage thriller about 70% and as an interpersonal workplace drama about 60% but the real sauce is that they work so well together you get 130% of movie baybee. 

    Cast is great, and I love how they set everything up in the first 15 minutes like it's an Agatha Christie novel.

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  • Vermiglio

    Vermiglio

    ★★★★

    Look, I'm a simple guy. If you show me a quietly devastating family-centric period piece that contrasts expansive, painterly landscapes with suffocating social mores I'm going to give it at least 4 stars. 

    I thought it was really interesting how the pacing defied the slow, "natural" rhythm of nature you would expect from a film that draws so much thematically from the transition from winter to spring. We're jerked along skipping weeks or months at a time with little warning,…

  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★★

    Are we certain the father didn't just look like that??