Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Master 2012

  Watched 29 Mar 2025 1

  Freddie will drink anything but the Kool-Aid

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  Con Air 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Actually amazing. One of my mother’s favorite movies of all time!

Popular reviews

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  Booksmart 2019

  ½ Added

  I am determined to keep this my only 1/2 star review as I found this movie to be singularly heinous. It isn't funny, there is little depth to the characters' relationships with each other, and it is overly committed to espousing of-the-moment identity politics. It could never become a classic, as it is not timeless.

  Ironically, the only highlight of this movie is the rich WASP guy. Olivia Wilde, please I am begging you, do not do another chopped-and-screwed re-make of an archetypal male movie just to have the main female characters be lame and humorless.

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  A true “moving picture”, essentially every shot could be printed and displayed in a gallery. Once I got into it, I found the first-person perspective very interesting and layered. Sound design was wild and viscerally upsetting at times. Several outstanding performances.

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