Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hannah and Her Sisters 1986

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Sep 2023

  Finally, a more true adaptation of Anna Karenina than any Anna Karenina before it!

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★ Watched 24 Jul 2023

  God, who knew watching Oppenheimer and Barbie in the same weekend would make me feel so existential.

Popular reviews

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  The Beatles: Get Back 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Nov 2021

  Just got home from a special premiere I managed to get tickets for watching the cinematic curation of The Beatles: Get Back. Obviously I haven't seen the full 6 hours but I managed to watch a short introduction by Peter Jackson and finally, all of days 18 and 21 of the Beatles' time spent recording, that including the day of the roof top performance.

  This unseen restoration stretched a clean smile across not only my face but visibly the entire…

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  Dogville 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Sep 2021 2

  I have rarely ever been so utterly transfixed by a film, Dogville succeeding in altering my view on how films "should" be made. The concept of creating a film on a large set piece, a sound stage surrounded by a wall of lights is fascinating; literally pulling down the buildings, an empty stage but some scattered furniture; the streets and houses of the town are drawn on the floor as if on a blackboard, an outlined and labelled floor plan;…