Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Duck Soup 1933

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Love the triplicated Groucho scene. Kids were understandably not on board with this one up until the point 15 minutes in when Harpo appears.

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  Mon Oncle 1958

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  More dialogue than expected. Had to read the subtitles aloud to the kids. They loved it anyway, or at least the 4 year old did. Great movie, incredible set design and sound as always from Tati.

Popular reviews

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  Stars at Noon 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Oct 2022 1

  I’ve been having a Bad Time recently, and this is a beautiful movie about the crushing ambivalence of bad times, lost identity, living at the mercy of corporate and political figureheads who can never really look you in the eye. Paranoid and jazzy, like Inherent Vice in a minor key. In ten years, people will be mad at me for saying this is the best movie ever made about covid (is there any competition?), but I don’t care.

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Jun 2020

  I couldn’t tell if I liked the movie at first. Then, when I woke up the next morning, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, trying to piece it all back together with a strange, disproportionate urgency —it’s as if the venom at the center of the parable kicks in with a delay. With this in mind, I hope it’s not too crass to mention that several of the people involved with the film, including Tarkovsky and the actor who plays The Writer, died years later, at relatively young ages, probably due to exposure to toxic waste while filming on location.

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