Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★½ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Miracle on 34th Street 1947

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  Consistently funny and at times genuinely touching without ever becoming saccharine and simplistic, pretty rare for a Christmas movie. Seeing this at the Stanford theater was a magical experience.

Popular reviews

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  The Wind Rises 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Dec 2024

  The plane would fly if we took the guns out 😢

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  Get Shorty 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2024

  Satirically and genuinely about how movies are magic. And if the magic of movies isn’t John Travolta beating up James Gandolfini (who has a ponytail) twice, I don’t know what is. It’s the Cadillac of minivans.

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