Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  War of the Worlds 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  Tom Cruise…a real alien, surviving an alien attack? I’m in.

  Also: Alien attack > watching your own kids

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  Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 2024

  ★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Helluva trick to get me to watch what’s just basically a half season of a tv show. There is a good movie in here but it is surrounded by so much melodramatic tv bull shit you won’t find it. This would’ve been a miniseries in the 80s.

Popular reviews

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  When You Finish Saving the World 2022

  ★★ Watched 20 Jan 2022

  If an AI wrote Lady Bird.

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  Sand Storm 2016

  ★★½ Watched 14 May 2020

  I very much enjoyed the performances of Lamis Ammar as Layla and Ruba Blal as her mother, Jalila. They were definitely the best part of the film for me. The story itself was compelling at times, though largely predictable. The fact that the director is merely an observer of Bedouin culture shows through in the lack of context and other flaws typical of outsiders making films about their "othered" neighbors.

  While there are, I'm sure, many truths told in this…