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Favorite films

  • Notting Hill
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  • Y Tu Mamá También

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  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★★

  • Alien: Romulus

    ★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    ★★½

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    My personal favorite of 2024. I love Sean Baker so much 😭

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★

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

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  • Civil War

    Civil War

    ★½

    A generic title befitting a generic movie…

    I came into this movie with a sort of hopeful doubt, but I should have known better! I’ve not really cared much for any of his previous films, but I read some (of your!) reviews, and thought maybe this one might be different. This movie, like others of his I’ve seen, just feels so lacking in substance; all bark but no bite. 

    Garland, in typical fashion, makes frequent use of convenient “plot vehicles”…

  • Alien

    Alien

    ★★★★★

    I had the absolute privilege of watching the Alien 45th Anniversary Re-Release with my girlfriend in an otherwise COMPLETELY EMPTY THEATER and it had the same vibe as watching the Golden State Warriors in 2017 and 2018; God-mode.

    So utterly immersive & imaginative, Ridley Scott earns his vaulted status in film history with this 1979 classic that hasn’t aged a day. Sci-fi and horror are actually two of my least favorite genres, so my enthusiasm for this sci-fi horror is incredibly…