Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Pattinson incredible, dying is very scary, we’re all just flesh. Starship Troopers made the point a bit better, I fear. 

  my apologies to Timo Werner

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  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I have such fond memories of eating Reese’s Pieces in the theater in 2002 while seeing this masterpiece. Childhood was good.

  I was recently in Stockton for 7 hours and I see it so vividly in this, in a way.

Popular reviews

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  Thief 1981

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Nov 2021 1

  Movies like this re-affirm to me that life in the past, in so many little ways, was worse. Everyone's just kinda corrupt and sad and racist. Then you go home to a boring little house.

  Anyway, yeah this is excellent. A tragedy with a ton of really well done subplots and side-characters built in throughout without making it confusing or too complicated. Gianmarco told me this is basically the prototype of prestige TV and I totally agree.

  I love a…

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  The Apartment 1960

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Oct 2022

  The first time I watched this, I was totally transfixed by Shirley MacLaine's beauty and sadness.

  This time? All Jack Lemmon, baby. Is this one of the greatest performances of all time? The man somehow perfectly embodied pathetic loneliness and was a master of physical comedy at the same time. As a fellow pushover, I can only give C.C. "Bud" Baxter complete sympathy.