Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Godfather 1972

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Finally filled this gap in. Not much more to say that hasn't been said, but I do love the way that Michael changes visually. Before he goes to Sicily, he looks almost like Dustin Hoffman in the The Graduate--Ivy League oxford shirt, repp tie, sack jacket and a mop of hair.

  As he goes back to Sicily, his style is almost aged two decades. Band collar, waistcoat, newsboy cap. I suspect there will be resonance with how De Niro's Vito…

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  The Parallax View 1974

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  Really quite different than what I anticipated. It looks incredible, and Beatty is compelling. Were people in the 70s ok?

Popular reviews

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  The Green Knight 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Aug 2021

  My most anticipated movie in quite some time, and it only disappointed a little. Frankly, I'm not sure any movie could meet the sky-high expectations I had for this. And my disappointment only stems from where I feel the movie pulled its aesthetic punches (e.g., not following up quite so much on the bonkers imagery and energy implied by the opening prologue).

  Lending the heart and weight of the film is Dev Patel, in the performance of the year thus…

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  O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Jun 2021

  Genuinely ashamed that it took me so long to finally watch this masterpiece, and that I did so on my computer. Everett's monologue toward the end about the changes that the looming industrialization of the South will bring is at once moving and particularly relevant today.

  The South's relationship to industrialization is fraught, of course, and the racial politics in this film and in the 1930s Southerner's lament for a changing way of life are of course ever-present and deeply…