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Favorite films

  • Days of Heaven
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The Great Escape

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  • The Quiet Earth

    ★★★★

  • Across 110th Street

    ★★★½

  • Joe

    ★★★

  • Clockwatchers

    ★★★★

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  • Joe

    Joe

    ★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Ricochet

    Ricochet

    ★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Lips of Blood

    Lips of Blood

    ★½

    Features some artful shots but mostly consists of the whiny and unlikeable protagonist running about, or four scantily clad young women walking about. Pretty much all of the plot is revealed/contained in the last 10 minutes, so the preceding 80 feels more confused and tedious than it does mysterious, as I assume was the intent, and I found myself close to nodding off fairly frequently.

  • Malignant

    Malignant

    ★★★½

    James Wan has outdone himself here, not just by making a film that's even dumber than Dead Silence but somehow also having it be wildly entertaining.

    This is an entirely ridiculous film. Had I watched it alone I might have found it irritating but instead I watched it screened in a bar and so got to mock it throughout with a nearby friend and surprise myself by predicting plot points which I'd actually suggested in jest.

    I don't want to…