Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Opus 2025

  ★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Another crazy rich guy with a secluded mansion? Again? Poorly cast, atonal and not particularly imaginative or good.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  I’m always impressed at Sean Baker’s ability to get Cassavetes like performances using an iPhone. The end credit fade is perfect and striking.

Popular reviews

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  Carriers 2009

  ★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2020

  What if the four worst people survived the apocalypse?

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  Sliver 1993

  ★½ Watched 15 Jul 2020 4

  Imagine a talented writer who writes a late career novel that’s a dud. Ira Levin’s Sliver was intended as a commentary on how the loss of privacy creates interesting moral dilemmas. The book itself turned out to be a bit of a snooze, even with adding sex and murder in the equation, the book’s awkward style and jumps in narrative don’t work.

  Now imagine being a semi-retired producer reading this novel and thinking you have a movie on your hands…