Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Snow White 2025

  ★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Although it’s not as slavish a retelling as the recent Lion King and Little Mermaid remakes, the latest Snow White is still an enormously dull picture. Director Marc Webb, known for indies such as 500 Days of Summer and Gifted, and blockbusters such as The Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2, shows a basic understanding of running an expensive production and not fully embarrassing himself, yet as competent as he may be, Snow White‘s biggest weakness come from its weak direction. 
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  Munich 2005

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  “I have thick, stupid, butcher’s hands just like yours”
  A sharp epic that explores the harsh moral erosion that comes with vengeance. Contains some of Spielberg’s boldest framing and shot designs. It’s pretty astonishing that he was able to make a film as damning and thematically pointed about Israel’s retaliation in the wake of the Munich Massacre in the year 2005. Maybe it just hits differently 20 years later.

Popular reviews

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  AquaSlash 2019

  ★½ Watched 11 Jul 2020 2

  There was approximately 5 minutes of aquaslashing in the 70 minute film, Aquaslash.

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  Old 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2021

  Shyamalan’s best since Signs. This is a filmmaker confronting his most trembling fears with the batshit swing of someone making their first or last film. Its thought-provoking contemplation on aging mixes well with some mortifying body horror (did anyone else think of Kuroneko?!) and the sick sense of humor Shyamalan has only flirted with up until this point. Old is disturbing, gross and ruthless while also equally melancholic and beautiful. He and I share similar fears, so when he expresses those…