Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Nov 2024

  Pure pleasure. Incredible things done with the camera

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  Pretty Woman 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Nov 2024

  The sex appeal in this one actually comes from George Costanza

Popular reviews

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  Satantango 1994

  ½ Watched 21 May 2020 39

  A REVIEW FOR MY #1 LEAST FAVORITE FEATURE FILM OF MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE, AND MAYBE FOREVER WITH A 99.95% PROBABILITY.

  I was going to write the longest review I had ever written for Sátántangó, Tarr's infamously long so-called "masterpiece", which is the most pretentious and self-aggrandizing piece of shit I have ever seen. It is, to date, the worst experience I have ever had watching a film.

  My review was going to be really funny. I was going to make…

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  Eyes Wide Shut 1999

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Jun 2020 3

  The first time I saw "Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick." as the poster tagline for Eyes Wide Shut, I thought it was the worst I'd ever seen, a naked attempt to draw an audience solely based on the celebrity of the Hollywood supercouple. But the casting of a real couple, and especially one with such a famously gung-ho charismatic figure like Tom Cruise, is essential to what Kubrick is exploring in the film. It's the tapestry that Kubrick weaves with the fragility…