Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974

  ★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  A blast. Parents liked it too.

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  Pale Rider 1985

  ★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  A lot of rote western elements and it leans a little heavily on Clint as a masculine myth of the American Frontier. Final 20 minutes are great.

Popular reviews

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  Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali 2021

  ★★ Watched 13 Sep 2021

  Bizarrely light on specifics and detail about the relationship between these two giants, given that this relationship is supposedly what the whole thing is about. Most of the time this seems like two separate docs that have been shoddily edited together. The result is that it gets lost in generalities and fails to have anything truly insightful to say.

  Should have just kept the camera rolling on Cornel West, would have been a better hour and a half.

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  A Summer in La Goulette 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2021

  A Catholic, a Jew and a Muslim walk into a bar- they make a delightful sex comedy set in 60s Tunis. I want to live in this movie!

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