Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Holland 2025

  ★★ Watched 01 Apr 2025

  This stunk!

  But it’s important to recalibrate periodically by watching a total stinker ⚖️

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 31 Mar 2025

  All gas no brakes. But, chasing after what, exactly? Hard to say. Formless, yet crafted so carefully. So much funnier than I remember from the first time. (Seeing it in a theater instead of at home during a pandemic helped with that.) Alana Haim, dynamite. More of that please. Great soundtrack. This one’s grown on me.

  On 70mm at the lovely Heights Theater. Shout out to the organist for warming up the audience beforehand.

Popular reviews

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2024

  Biggest pleasant surprise movie of 2023? So much to like about this one, including:

  -Godzilla destroying everything
  -Civilians combatting Godzilla by land sea and air
  -Fantastic period appropriate Japanese workwear
  -The timeless Godzilla theme music (of course) and more great sound design
  -A classic yet satisfying redemption narrative for the protagonist paired with a touching conclusion to a genuinely moving family drama subplot
  -The professor, who was so cool and had perfect hair

  Godzilla Minus One kind of had it all? Great flick.

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  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  My head’s ringing and my muscles are tense. I kind of think this was a good movie? At least in terms of accomplishing what it sets out to do. Or maybe it just made me really stressed. Either way I won’t be revisiting lol

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