Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Michael Fassbender is now the reigning world champion at Wearing A Suit.

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  The Commitments 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Yep, still adore every second of this.

Popular reviews

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  All That Is Sacred 2023

  Watched 19 Nov 2023

  I can't really rate this fairly, but watching it in a packed house here in Key West was a hell of an experience -- and when a turkey vulture flew into a tie line and knocked out the power in the Lower Keys, just as the Q&A was starting, that was peak Key West. (As was the fact that the talk continued, lit by cell phone flashlights from the audience. The spirits of Buffett and Harrison clearly showed up.)

  Key West Film Festival 2023

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  Misha and the Wolves 2021

  ★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2021

  An undeniably fascinating, knotty story about the Holocaust and deception and memory and belief, undone somewhat by a curiously flat telling. I'm not sure how a film pulls off being too matter-of-fact and too sensationalist at the same time, and yet.

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