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Favorite films

  • Zodiac
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Raging Bull
  • Jaws

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  • 101 Dalmatians

    ★★★½

  • Cinderella

    ★★★½

  • Pinocchio

  • Aladdin

    ★★½

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  • 101 Dalmatians

    101 Dalmatians

    ★★★½

    Glen Close understood the assignment.

  • Cinderella

    Cinderella

    ★★★½

    Lily James is pure magic. Sandy Powell went to TOWN on these costumes.

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  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    ★★★★★

    This is, without a doubt, my absolute favorite film of the year. This is everything I could ever ask for in a film. This is by far Keaton's best performance. Will get a Best Actor nomination? Oh, he better. Will he win? I think he deserves to win. His performance as Reagan Thompson is not only a correlation to Keaton's own pitfalls in his career, but a chance for Keaton (and Thompson) to make a comeback that we can all…

  • Opus

    Opus

    ★½

    Quite a disappointment. The film meanders aimlessly between horror and dullness, globing onto ideas of tribalism, celebrity worship, journalism, perspective, religious sects, creative thinking, pop art but manages to say nothing of any cohesive substance or worth. Rough drafts of characters that speak in exposition dumps, yet no semblance of organic dialogue or connective tissue with one another. 

    Barks and walks like a parody of an A24 cult horror film, offering no buildup of tension and spurts of mediocre horror…