Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The 12th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special 2025

  Watched 05 Mar 2025

  Sat on this one for a few days and overall I really enjoyed this season of On Cinema, and this edition of the Oscar Special. Ultimately came to really enjoy how this season felt more like its roots and felt less consequential. That being said however, some of my favorite parts of On Cinema come from the frightening or stressful moments that are all of a sudden very real and break through the comedy, and it felt like this season…

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  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  I fucking loved this

  I was resting on 4.5 stars near the finish, but the ending busted my guts and I rewound multiple times because I both adored it and was laughing so hard

  Such a brilliant piece of constantly on the move filmmaking; so many moving pieces that were so much fun to watch tick along. The “never stop, go go go” nature of this and all of the busywork reminded me of many of the Safdie joints like…

Popular reviews

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  Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Jul 2019

  Yeehaw.
  I love Inside Llewyn Davis to death, and I adore that this film felt like the actor’s edition of that movie, with constantly moving parts, slices of life (however bizarre and fantastical that it seemed), long conversations, and the lack of a traditional three act structure. 

  The cast was just perfection all around, and after sitting with it for a bit, I LOVE how Sharon Tate was portrayed by Margot Robbie: it felt less like she was trying to…

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  The Bye Bye Man 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Jul 2020

  Obviously the movie fucking blows, you don’t need me to tell you that.

  The reason I’m giving this 5 stars is because I bought this bluray for 6 dollars from a local video store during a trip to visit my best friends that I haven’t seen since COVID-19 flared up (don’t worry Letterboxd: I’m in New Brunswick in Canada, and our tiny Atlantic provinces are bubbled so visitation is all good rn).

  We decided to watch this movie together (right…