Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Paddington 2 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  If you look for the good in people, you will find it.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  If that one Parfit thought experiment came true, except minus teleportation and more like on-the-nose labor exploitation. Pattinson’s superb. Maybe too unlikable antagonist, though the red hats were a nice touch.

Popular reviews

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  The Graduate 1967

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 May 2023

  Graduating college and falling devastatingly in love while everyone asks you what you’re doing with your life? Sounds about right.

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2024

  anxious and put-together or an open-hearted wreck?

  i’ll choose hunky-cheerful and (over)informed brit trying his best. 

  kieran and jesse are beautifully suited to their cousin/brotherhood. something about balancing the depth vs. expression of feeling. (in conversation? in action?). what’s the appropriate container? maybe my favorite line of movie- if not here & now to grieve, when?

  as broken the world, and as hard it is to break open in that world, probably better to have a home to come home to.