Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Nothing, I repeat nothing could have prepared me for Anna Mouglalis’ credit here

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Type of guy who becomes a spy so he can live in a house with a sick kitchen

Popular reviews

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  Ballet 1995

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Nov 2020

  Wiseman on the scene with Jane the administrator yelling at Lincoln Center over the phone: “when you come across a sequence like that you think you’ve lived a clean and moral life and that God is on your side.”

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  The Romance of Astrea and Celadon 2007

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Aug 2020

  The young Latin/Greek teacher ends his filmmaking career with an adaptation perfectly suited to his lifelong interests. It is worth noting that the source novel is 5,000 pages long, what percentage of which I have absolutely no idea how much this movie represents.

  Hylas may be one of my favorite Rohmer characters, a chaos gremlin sent to upend every “respectable” claim about love or fidelity espoused by any other character. And how expansive this film can be: there's time enough…