Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  My Old Ass 2024

  ★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Charming and effective. Beautifully shot; makes me want to visit cottage country.

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  It's incredible to me that this role wasn't written for Culkin, it's a perfect fit. Great to see him on the screen again. Eisenberg gives an outstanding performance as well.

Popular reviews

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  Paris, Texas 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2024

  Was not prepared for how hot Harry Dean Stanton looked in this

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  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

  ★★ Watched 15 Jun 2023

  What would have made an outstanding short film is stretched out to an insufferable three-and-a-half hours by an endless parade of domestic chores depicted in excruciating detail that do little to develop the story's themes or characters. What is this tedium trying to communicate, exactly? That life is hard for single mothers? That sex work is alienating? Any interpretation along these lines is undermined by the fact that hardly any of the drudgery on display here would be unfamiliar to…

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