Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 07 May 2024

  Now I get why Guadagnino got to introduce ‘The Dreamers’ at last year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna…

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  Father's Little Dividend 1951

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Jul 2023

  Was Spencer Tracy the inspiration for Modern Family’s Jay Pritchett all along? Thoroughly enjoyable.

Popular reviews

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  Toscana 2022

  ½ Watched 20 May 2022 1

  Bizarre, soulless, cynical, incredible, forgettable.

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  Gemini Man 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Oct 2019 2

  "When I saw him, it was like I was seeing a ghost".

  This is fast-paced and confusing, beautifully looking and compulsively watchable. It's one heck of an action flick, and even if it doesn't exactly classify as post-continuity cinema, it will have your head spinning round for days. Disorientation and disbelief, of course, are amongst its core themes: Aging 51-year old veteran assassin Will Smith is hunted down by a younger version of himself. As a director, Ang Lee is not simply…

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