Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Phone Booth 2002

  ★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Forest Whitaker can kill it in any bad movie. Joel Schumacher has a special gift.

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  Magic in the Moonlight 2014

  ★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Finally, a Woody Allen film made in the last decade that is a genuine good time. Also about grumpy magicians. My favorite subject.

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Jul 2023

  IMAX in 70mm
  In a nutshell, I would’ve liked more Los Alamos and less politics.

  It’s hard to separate the incredible format and presentation from the film itself. Gorgeous cinematography and a score that crackles. Heroically edited. For me, the meat of the film is Los Alamos, by far the strongest and most emotionally grounded bit. Cillian Murphy’s performance deserves serious praise. Various romantic threads felt like disconnected lost footage. And the story’s primary dramatic lever, a political rivalry of sorts,…

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2021

  This is balls-to-the-wall, bold  filmmaking. A cinematic orgy.

  Nolan’s Brain: 
  A Movie has video and sound. Let’s turn each of those things up to eleven. Whatever will look and sound amazing in a theater. Period. 

  I have no complaints.

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