Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Shōgun 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Jul 2024

  There's a review somewhere in my notes app that I'm too tired to edit lol

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  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jun 2024

  As a longtime Hunger Games enthusiast, I didn't enjoy this as much as I'd hoped. I did love the games and the latter part of the third act but that’s about it. Perhaps reading the book the minute it got out (embarrassingly through piracy) was a mistake.

  Panem wasn’t poorly adapted; the world-building was superb even without the fuss of Katniss-era Capitol. But my only wish was to see the gradual unfolding of Coriolanus’ sociopathy and yet the film was…

Popular reviews

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  Barry Lyndon 1975

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Jun 2020 2

  It has been a while since I last saw a full-length feature film. I'm glad I chose Kubrick to end my indolence. Barry Lyndon comes off as a rather typical biography elevated by its striking visual. Frankly, the cinematography and camerawork are both top-notch followed by the film's score. Kubrick's writing was great, although it is easily forgettable in this one.

  I would admit seeing Ryan O'Neal as the lead lowered my expectations. You can't blame me for I first…

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  Hamilton 2020

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 06 Jul 2020 2

  You can like a musical and appreciate its musicality by simultaneously recognizing its theme's issues. I still can't bring myself to hate this when it has given so many opportunities to POC actors. All of us have pretty much witnessed the domination of white actors in the industry, playing roles where race isn't even an issue, roles that should be open for everyone. For that single fact and for other outstanding ones, I applaud this so much.

  This is just…