Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dick 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  Everything I know about Watergate I learned from old Doonesbury strips, so I assume this is completely accurate.

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  Casino Royale 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Too long; opening hour could be cut, and is it a 3 night poker game?! But regardless: I liked the relative low stakes of just trying to take down an arms dealer as opposed to trying to save the world from blowing up; Daniel Craig is the perfect mix of charisma and brutality; and his chemistry with Eva Green elevates what should be melodramatic bullshit in the third act.

Popular reviews

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2024

  I think this happens less with the advertising gate-keepers of our smartphone apps, but if you were on the internet in the early 2000s it wasn’t hard to start clicking on some relatively innocuous links and end up down some very strange rabbit holes, finding things that were equal parts fascinating and disturbing. You wanted to look away but you also couldn’t stop clicking. (And your computer probably ended up with a virus.)  That’s what this movie feels like. It’s…

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  Going in Style 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2024

  Sweet and melancholy without devolving into cheese or melodrama. And a great NYC movie. if it gets a little shaggy in the third quarter it makes up for it with some subtly incredible single shots.

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