Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Bout 2 hours in I turned to my friend and said “this guy was real, right?” He wasn’t real. I felt a fool. Regardless this was awesome. Lingering thoughts include: I didn’t know they had weed in the 50s, is Lazlo from Camp Lazlo also Austro-Hungarian, why doesn’t doylestown have a cool brutalist church-library-gym-auditorium, and what happened in the Harrison-Van Buren election that made them the namesake of the antagonist?

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  This is what it feels like to be a ravens fan

Popular reviews

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  The Juror 1996

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Aug 2021 1

  Why did This rock so hard? I saw This movie under JGL’s page and laughed so hard at the title that I immediately rented it for $4. I can’t even describe how absolutely bonkers this is. Gandolfini doing what he do. Masterpiece.

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  Manchester by the Sea 2016

  ½ Rewatched 06 Oct 2022

  Didn’t even watch this again but the thought of it came to my mind at work and I considered committing a war crime… still quite honestly the singular worst thing I’ve ever watched. This was a movie designed for Georgetown grads who studied sociology just to join a government organization that defunds state sponsored drug treatment. I’ve never wanted to hurt someone more than Casey Affleck. I’m still ranting because I remember it was the first time I left a…

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