Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Heretic 2024

  ★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  A bore. It’s amazing what gets made these days.

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  All We Imagine as Light 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  Beautiful.

Popular reviews

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  Here 2024

  ½ Watched 12 Nov 2024

  Robert Zemeckis’ 2024 movie entitled “Here” could be one of the worst movies ever made. A sad sack melodrama of joyless people, perpetual victims, who possess no agency in their own lives trapped in a single room akin to a prison. You could make the case that the film is about the prison of the “American dream”and the distortions and lies required to believe it actually exists. There’s an underlying suggestion in the movie that the house they live in…

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★ Watched 26 Nov 2024

  Hmmm...okay. First off I suppose I should confess that I've never ben a big fan of musical theatre or the Wizard of Oz. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are incredible singers and solid actors. They both have a lot of charisma on screen. Without them this film would be straight up bad.

  The translation of the musical to the big screen is a bold effort, but there's something that feels flat in the world building and the overall visual design.…