Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Confess, Fletch 2022

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Watchable but forgettable
  Jon Hamm and Kyle Maclachlan charm amongst a largely irritating supporting cast

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  Between Two Ferns: The Movie 2019

  ★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025 1

  Man, Paul Rudd would get it

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  Post viewing brain gush:

  Eggers' movies tell richly allegorical but narratively simple folkloric tales

  These work so well in The Witch and The Lighthouse because these stories unfold in confines, claustrophobic atmosphere and arresting performances conjuring a constant build that comes to an inescapable crescendo.

  This in essence is the same approach in both The Northman and Nosferatu yet this doesn't seem to scale up. Greater scope and more players in these tales seem to dilute what makes them so…

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  Memories of Murder 2003

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  I loved this for many of reasons I love Fincher's Zodiac

  An unsolved crime seen through the increasingly skewed lens of the detectives who become obsessed with solving it, losing themselves and sight of the case along the way

  As much as it grips you with tense interactions, seemingly revelatory clues, and harrowing glimpses of the crimes themselves it too ambles, leads you astray, and burdens you with the unknown

  Equally, masculinity, in its many forms, is at the core…

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