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Favorite films

  • Boogie Nights
  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Heat

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  • Juror #2

    ★★★½

  • Romeo + Juliet

    ★★★★

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    ★★★★★

  • Small Things Like These

    ★★★★

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  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★½

    Great courtroom drama with fantastic performances from the names in the cast, particularly Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult, however let down by hammy, hallmarky acting by the other jurors in the deliberation scenes and dialogue that often felt inauthentic and cheap.

    I felt myself deliberating between a 3.5 and 4 but feel the ending offers enough moral fat to chew on to make up for any shortcomings.

    Clint Eastwood can very clearly still make a movie at 94!

    Edit: settled on 3.5 in the end sorry Clint

  • Wind River

    Wind River

    ★★★

    Please let Denis Villeneuve remake this.

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  • Rebels of the Neon God

    Rebels of the Neon God

    ★★★★★

    Watched 10 minutes of Ford V Ferrari before switching over to this. Thank God.

    Aimless meandering days. Petty crime for pocket change. Self-soothing with drink, porn, one night stands and video games.

    The end of history is here folks, don't judge people for living in it.

  • Glengarry Glen Ross

    Glengarry Glen Ross

    ★★★★★

    This film is a stage-play brought to life.

    When the rain falls it feels heavy and artificial. The shot of the street is used multiple times as a way to set the scene as a bridge between the two main locales, the chinese restaurant and the office, and helps to contain the everyone to this little world. In the best way possible, none of the sets in this film feel real. They feel static but intimate and purely as a…

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