Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Two Popes 2019

  ★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  Watching Conclave reminded me of this--not as full of plot twists, but it obviously has the same vibe (both have that weighty, behind-closed-doors feel)

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  The cinematography is off the roof. 

  Fontaine makes the vatican looks too stunning and intense. It’s not just pretty to look at--it pulls you right into the story’s big questions about power, morality, and belief.

Popular reviews

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  Band of Outsiders 1964

  ★★★ Watched 13 Jul 2019

  “Bande a part” may not be among the most awesome masterpieces of cinema, but it is memorable, funny, and a delightful example on how Godard is having fun in making poetic, jazzy, noir-ish, charming cinema with his one and only muse, Anna Karina. Godard is letting his imagination run wild, filling our minds with life’s little pleasantries, and random absurdities. It is very much worth seeing for fans of mid-century French films.

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  About Endlessness 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2023

  Ah yes, my weekly dose of existential crisis has arrived. What a perfect way to start my weekend by watching Andersson’s Living Trilogy. Andersson’s films are known for his depressing, dull, pale yet quirky, comedic scenes. I always have this–special ‘something’ with gloomy theme-kind of films.

  “About Endlessness” is a film that talks about faith, religion, bureaucracy, politics, existence, identity, the desire to feel and love and experience and find importance in true beauty and search for a way to…