Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Star Trek: Insurrection 1998

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  It’s a lot less boring than i remember when i was 12 but it’s still not…. Great. It looks really good but the script is just sort of… nothing. Feels like a blown up episode pitch. Oh well

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  Notes on a Scandal 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Imagining the discourse if this came out now

Popular reviews

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  Lust, Caution 2007

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jun 2024

  Screened on 35mm with a talk with Ang Lee! 
  Really complex, emotionally taxing story telling- the mark of mature filmmaking. Central performances by Tang Wei and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai are extraordinarily compelling- they’re both able to sell the deep and twisted connection they share. Really lavish filmmaking too! Lee mentioned he alllowed the DP infinite time between takes to adjust things- and it really shows. Great film, one I plan to revisit.

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  Warfare 2025

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Hm! A really well made, immersive experience. I think garland is really growing into his own as a director. However I struggled a little bit with what I perceived to be tension between Garland, wanting to pull certain themes out of the story, and Mendoza, trying to slavishly recreate the story with “no political message” (his words from a post screening q&a). I think the movie might have been better with a little more Garland. 
  Still, As a millennial black hawk down, it really works.