Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Ryan's Daughter 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Incomprehensibly well photographed. Truly mind boggling how they made pictures look this good. This would be good/weird double feature with Banshees of Inisherin if you have roughly 5 hours to kill.

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  Novocaine 2025

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I couldn’t stop thinking about that one episode of Seinfeld where George goes to a movie he’s already seen just to say “That’s gotta hurt!” at the perfect moment to make the audience all laugh and feel a fleeting sense of validation from strangers.

Popular reviews

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  Warfare 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Advance screening courtesy of Letterboxd at The Grove AMC IMAX, followed by a Q&A with Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland, and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. 

  Truly powerful filmmaking. Astonishing and visceral. I can never presume to understand what it’s like to fight in combat, but this film gave me a good idea. 

  The performances are captivating and I loved how small, focused and intimate the story was. This isn’t a vast epic about warfare in general, it’s a tight and contained story about…

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  Paddington 2014

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  Get you a girl who loves you like Paddington loves marmalade