Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Brisk, smart, and cool spy drama. Soderbergh and Koepp make a fine team.

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  Boyhood 2014

  ★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025 1

  Admirable and ambitious slice of life film that starts strong and works best when it has a narrative arc during Mason’s childhood years. The film took a dip for me once Mason reached adolescence in that it just felt so aimless. Maybe that was the point, but some of the “teenager scenes” were so cringeworthy in their writing and execution that it kind of took me out of it. I couldn’t stand this version of Mason, thought he was really…

Popular reviews

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  Yi Yi 2000

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Dec 2019 1

  A 3-hour existential meditation on life’s meaning from the perspective of different members of a Taiwanese family. Director Edward Yang shoots the film in a detached, objective manner with no music to embellish scenes. He plants the camera down and has us watch people talk at wide angles, very seldom do we see a close up. He also loves shooting behind windows and mirrors, seeing into the soul of his characters while reflecting the modern Taipei cityscape. Neorealism is strong with this one.

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Sep 2020 1

  EDIT: I get the movie now. It’s amazing. 

  Christopher Nolan has delivered another stunning piece of original cinema. Still processing the film (everything you’ve heard about the sound mix is true — my friends and I could barely understand what was going on), but it is pure spectacle with the kind of imagination and complexity we’ve all come to expect from a Christopher Nolan film. Despite my lack of comprehension of the plot, there’s so much in here to buy…