Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Spider-Man 2002

  ★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025 1

  I wish it were a little less 2002, but man, when Raimi is cooking, it still works like gangbusters.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025 2

  Definitely on the higher end of Soderbergh’s recent output, but I still can’t shake the feeling that he's an A student who has spent the past two decades handing in C+ work. And he definitely needs a new cinematographer.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Nov 2022

  Chazelle directs this thing like it's going to be the last movie ever made and if so, it's a fitting epitaph for cinema. The film is fearless and Chazelle leaves it all on the field but I wish the ending landed for me.

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★ Watched 14 Apr 2023

  While I prefer Aster's nightmare surrealism to Charlie Kaufman's in Synecdoche, NY and I'm Thinking of Ending Things, he still badly needs an editor. The first forty minutes are laugh-out-loud funny but after 3 hours of Aster emptying his subconscious, just becomes exhausting. I'm glad he got this out of his system.