Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Lawrence of Arabia 1962

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  "With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion"

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  All About Eve 1950

  Watched 12 Jun 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Waltz with Bashir 2008

  ½ Watched 03 Nov 2022 2

  From a statement by Students for Justice in Palestine calling for a boycott of an upcoming screening of Waltz with Bashir at the Logan Center at the University of Chicago (Friday, November 4, 2022):

  "As explained below, Folman’s film whitewashes Israel’s role in the 1982 Sabra/Shatila genocide, centers Israeli perpetrators over Palestinian victims, and falsely portrays this genocide as an isolated incident of “tragic” violence — rather than, as is in fact the case, one atrocity among countless others in…

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  Blaise Pascal 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Jul 2021

  "If I seek the void in nature, it's to discover its mirror in the heart of man. When I feel the void consume my humanity, when my thoughts are freed from vain ideas or desires, God, whom I know only through reason, and therefore do not know ... perhaps God will deign to consider the place I've made for him inside me. A place, not of the finite and miserable dimensions of my reason, but of the infinite dimensions of…