Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Pray Away 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Aug 2021

  I would have preferred hearing more from the victims of this horrible abuse rather than the perpetrators of it. But it does make you feel hopeful that nasty and evil thoughts can change. This is a well paced doc with some pretty special moments captured in it

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  A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Jun 2021

  This movie is so remarkably upsetting to me

Popular reviews

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  Joker 2019

  ★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2019

  Do you think Todd Phillips really just wants to make a dance movie and this is his way of trying that out?

  All in all I think the visual storytelling is well done but this movie ultimately has nothing interesting to say.

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  The Assistant 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 19 May 2020

  You can definitely tell this was directed by a documentarian. It’s slow and quiet and deliberate.  Very well acted and told it’s familiar story from a new point of view. Found myself losing focus at certain points but the scene between Julia Garner and Mathew Macfadyen is genuinely upsetting and electric.

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