Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Palo Alto 2013

  ★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  I feel like this was not a good movie. But it left me melancholic and devastated in a way a movie hasn’t made me feel in a long time

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  I won’t try to judge this one objectively as a film—I was thrown right down to the floor. 

   Dylan, a man who meant the world to me at one point (and a man who still means very much), is brought to life here in a breathtaking way. A beautiful portrait of the artist as a young man.

Popular reviews

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  Annie Hall 1977

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2024 1

  “He’s depressed. It’s something that he read.”

  “The universe is expanding.”

  So me

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  The Tree of Life 2011

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Nov 2024 1

  "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth? ... When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

  I’m at a loss for words; but the words must come. 

  Given that I’m currently taking a course on Leibniz, I felt myself reflecting throughout watching this on his dictum that we live in the “best of all possible worlds.” Leibniz was the man who coined the term “theodicy,” and Malick has captured…