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Favorite films

  • Central Station
  • A Canterbury Tale
  • Cold Comfort Farm
  • A Serious Man

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  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★½

  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

    ★★★★½

  • Mars Attacks!

    ½

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  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★★

    The outburst of knowing laughter in the theater when the girls are rubbing Coca Cola onto their skin revealed that the number of non-Brazilians in the audience was negligible.
    Fellow Americans, you’re missing out on an excellent movie.

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★½

    Pretty enjoyable. The ending seemed a little silly. This nest of vipers is going to elect some nobody on the basis of a 15 second speech he gave? Also the only evidence we see of Ralph Fiennes’s supposed crisis of faith is that he repeatedly tells people he’s having one, but there are no specifics. This feels a little lazy and like a real missed opportunity to further dramatize the spiritual conflict at the heart of the movie. It gave…

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  • I Know Where I'm Going!

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    ★★★★★

    This movie made me fall in love with the Hebrides. Someday when I amass a vast fortune I’ll retire to one of their remote islands with my husband and 70 wolfhounds. I’ll fill my days searching for birds nests, wearing heathered wool, opening and closing storm shutters, and researching the lore of the isles.

  • Shakedown

    Shakedown

    ★★★½

    Unsettling surprises abound in this unhinged buddy cop romp. People will rightly focus on the final plane scene, but I’d like to shout out the fiancée announcing her miscarriage at dinner, thereby allowing the main character to guiltlessly dump her for his ex in front of her family.

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