Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Lorna Doone 2000

  ★½ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  james mcavoy gives his all in those three seconds of screen time.

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  The Color Purple 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  oh man the dancing! but where was the chemistry between celie and shug? where was walker’s revelatory conceptualization of god? there’s a lot to love here, but I don’t feel that the adaptation completely understands the book.

Popular reviews

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  When Harry Met Sally... 1989

  ★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2023 2

  A weird, funny, romantic film which sadly seems to understand love only through a misogynistic, heteronormative lens. “I am man you are woman,” as my sister once put it. The ♥️ is for Meg Ryan.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★ Watched 17 Sep 2023

  A masterful film. Fails to reckon with the great evil of its subject. War is not necessary; genocide is not necessary. The film expected me to root for its hero and I would not. Expected me to give a damn whether he gets his security clearance back. Nothing justifies the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Nothing. The brutality of the bombing was only briefly touched upon—and even then only to convey its emotional effect upon Oppenheimer, as! If! I!…

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