Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Spirited Away 2001

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Apr 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Devil's Advocate 1997

  ★★ Watched 21 Aug 2021

  What the fuck

Popular reviews

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  Quest 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2017

  Had the pleasure and privilege of attending a screening of this in Philadelphia with a Q&A with the filmmakers, family, and local activists following. A beautifully human movie about one family that’s specific but universal. 

  Someone asked, “What do you want viewers to take from this movie?” PJ, the precocious teenage daughter who’s one of the central subjects of the film, answered “empathy”. It’s a film about gun violence, race, gentrification, police discrimination, LGBT identity, poverty, addiction and so much more but only because these are the “issues” that affect most families in America every day.

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  BlacKkKlansman 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Aug 2018

  Solid but not nearly as radical as it ought to be.