Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Nov 2024

  A mostly solid but not too clever script. Beautifully shot and performed. Cool. Fine.

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  Will & Harper 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Sep 2024

  Beautiful

Popular reviews

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  Close 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2022

  Incredibly moving and intimate film. Portrait of grief, joy, anger, and the tumult of experiencing love as a kid.

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  Incendies 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Jul 2022

  This film repeats a few times: Death does not obscure the past. It sets it on fire, only to bare the raw truths buried deep below. 

  Incendies’ protagonists (and fraternal twins) Jeanne and Simon are searching for the logic to defend and justify their cruel new reality, as they begin to look for their lost brother in the wake of their mothers death. When she leaves behind a notarized will that points them to painful clues about her past, the…

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