Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  A Million Ways to Die in the West 2014

  ★ Watched 18 Jan 2024

  maybe Seth MacFarlane auteurism has gone too far.

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2021 1

  70mm

  Yet again, Paul Thomas Anderson proves why he's the greatest director working today.

  From the opening frames of LICORICE PIZZA to the end, I had a smile of my face, thinking of why I love movies. The film is pure joy from beginning to end. PTA lets go of narrative structure to create something that feels more like a free-wheeling breeze. The film jumps from beat to beat, scene to scene. Characters, most clearly Jon Peters, enter the film…

Recent reviews

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  Less Than Zero 1987

  ★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Ed Lachman masterclass. strips away almost all of the maturity of Ellis' text for the most 1980s anti-drug movie of all time.

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  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Feb 2025

  35mm

  one of the great screenplays. the only movie to understand the beauty and romance of the Long Island Rail Road

Popular reviews

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Oct 2023

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

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  Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire 2023

  ★½ Watched 15 Dec 2023 2

  70mm

  i don’t think any filmmaker has ever been hurt by a netflix partnership more than Zack Snyder. while i hesitate to call him a great director due to his pre-dc films either being just mildly good or outright bad, with his four dc films he started to come into his own as a filmmaker. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Zack Snyder’s Justice League in particular were his first two major works. however, since he started making films for netflix…