Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Star Wars 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Mar 2025

  Non-Special Edition.

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  The Sicilian 1987

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Dec 2021

  Director’s Cut.

Popular reviews

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  Bohemian Rhapsody 2018

  ★½ Watched 03 Feb 2019

  About what I expected: a by-the-numbers biopic powered by a charismatic lead performance and the deliciously overwrought music of Queen. The music and Mercury deserve better. The laziness of the whole endeavor leads to loads of unintentional laughs, but, as a Queen fan, it’s mostly infuriating.

  I don’t know if this the worst movie ever nominated for Best Picture, but it’s absolutely in the running.

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  Domino 2019

  Watched 17 Apr 2019

  No star rating for this one because it’s not a finished movie. It’s agonizing to watch at times. There’s a fun rooftop chase that was pretty clearly temp tracked to the “Kidnapped” cue from NORTH BY NORTHWEST (which is amusing because the sequence is a riff on VERTIGO), but it plays like a walk-through. The bullfight finale is brilliantly conceived, but it feels like the money shots are missing. De Palma was forced to rush through principal photography due to…