Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Tampopo 1985

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  Totally pulls off not taking itself seriously while taking the food it features very seriously—it’s very charming

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  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  You can be trustworthy, but that doesn’t make you honest

Popular reviews

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  Whirlybird 2020

  ★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2020

  “If you live long enough, you will hurt someone. And if there’s any good in you, you will regret it,” will haunt me forever.

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  God's Army 2: States of Grace 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2019 1

  By far, this is the cream of the LDS-movie crop. The problem is that it’s too challenging a film for faithful Mormons and perhaps not challenging enough for people who have limited knowledge of or apathy toward Mormonism. This cononundrem creates a very niche audience for this film: progressive Mormons, post-Mormons, and curious cinephiles who plunge the depths of fringe genres.

  Unlinke other LDS movies, someone not steeped in the vernacular, culture, and doctrines of Mormons could follow it. The…