Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002

  ★★★½ Rewatched 27 Oct 2024

  Maybe the best romcom out there. On a side note, are all minority communities in America the same? Change some of the names and accents, move it from Chicago to New York, and it could have easily been about my family.

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  17 Again 2009

  ★★★ Rewatched 24 Oct 2024

  The fact that no one recognized this dude as clearly being his younger self drove me nuts. His best friend who saw him had to look at a photo in order to recognize him? I know it's nitpicky, but it drove me insane

Popular reviews

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  Gaslight 1944

  ★★★ Watched 14 Sep 2022

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  He gaslights her.

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  Overture to Glory 1940

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2022

  I think that a lot of people who are criticizing the film for its positing of religion against secularism are forgetting the fact that we are watching a historical document from a world-view and culture that in many ways does not exist anymore. This movie reflects life in the old shtetls of before the war, not the open liberal world of the West today. What is being put in tension is not "faith" against secularism, but two very different worlds.…