Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Stop Making Sense 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Dec 2020

  People aren't kidding when they call this the greatest concert film of all time.

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  Heathers 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Aug 2020

  Every time I rewatch this movie, it's genius script just grabs me more and more. There's so much excellent symmetry and callbacks that are hidden behind the amazing, extremely 80s dialogue.

  "If you were happy all the time, you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game show host."

  That specific line really hit me this time. Of all the lines.

Popular reviews

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  Boyhood 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Aug 2014

  What can I say that probably hasn't already been said?

  It's a look at how friends, family, and pop culture come and go from our lives. It's an explanation about how we can't see or truly understand the problems our parents are having. It's a nostalgic look back at middle school and junior high, with all those damn desks. It's an exploration of how our relationships evolve, how we go from our first time seeing a nude girl on the…

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  Only God Forgives 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2013

  Honestly, PRY's review essentially summed up everything I thought about Only God Forgives, especially from a deeper, thematic standpoint. But I'll try to get my own, new thoughts in here as well.

  This is a film that is easy to misinterpret, and absolutely a film I can understand if one doesn't like. But once I realized that Gosling's character was, for lack of a better word, a loser who couldn't be what everyone else wanted him to be because of…

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