Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  One of these every week please. 🙏 

  I couldn’t have guessed the double crosses.

  See it in a theater - I gasped and squealed

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I had a good time. There was a lot of slack in the middle and tonal inconsistencies that made it less immersive. I’m grading on a curve because it’s a big director, original material, with movie stars. There should be more of these. 

  Seems now the whole point of becoming a name brand director is it’s the only way you get the green light to make a big budget original movie

Popular reviews

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  Ben & Arthur 2002

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2024

  If you demand your movies show you doors - the opening and the closing - the coming and the going - then this movie is for you!!!!

  This movie did for Tevas what Brando did for the leather jacket 

  Surprised when I learned that it was actually shot in California and not Florida.

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2023

  Let me know if you - like me - cry when things in the movies are so beautiful and perfect - 

  Arrival makes me feel that.   Just like the alien language - perfect moments in art transcend language, space, and time. Great art cuts through it all to hit us in a place so pure and foundational to being alive that there are no words. And like the alien smoke language - the feeling of exhilaration is fleeting. You…