Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory 2005

  ★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  While I think that the narratives are interesting and well told, I think this is a pretty poorly made Olympic documentary. It’s too constrained to its format, tells too much backstory, and doesn’t cover enough ground. 
  In my opinion, these Olympic documentaries could do more with telling us stories about the games rather than stories about the athletes—I’d love to know the details about how these games happened, what they built, what worked, the effects, but we’ll never get that. 
  It’s…

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  GoldenEye 1995

  ★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I found this film just to keep dragging on. I thought the rank sequence was the most interesting and entertaining, but I couldn’t believe we had more still after that. 
  I was loving the characters of Wade and Boris (Alan Cummings).

Popular reviews

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  Boyhood 2014

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Dec 2018 1

  i remember my first experience watching this film upon its release as one of the first times when i was totally immersed in a film. i did not check time or even recognize it had been nearly three hours. i think the main reason i felt this way while watching this still holds true upon a rewatch today—even after several viewings over the past years. when i watch this movie, i feel real life. i see myself being shown through…

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  Emma. 2020

  ★★ Watched 02 Jan 2021

  I liked the cinematography and music in Emma., but for some reason I found nearly everything else about this film to be really bother some and annoying..