Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Raisin in the Sun 1961

  ★★★ Watched 31 Mar 2025

  A fine play.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  Fine performances in an average music biopic.

  My favorite scene was the impromptu jam session with Seeger and the blues guy on the live TV show. I don't think Dylan set out to "invent" folk rock as the end of the movie seems to imply. I think it was more like they said at the beginning, that good music is good music, and he came from a lot of styles that he could use and still be a genius, which…

Popular reviews

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  Circle of Two 1981

  ★ Watched 01 Jul 2020

  From "A Paper Life" by Tatum O'Neal: "It was at this point that my father threw a script at me and said, 'You could do this piece of shit movie.'" And that's how we got "Circle of Two."

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  Just Another Christmas 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2020

  Just Another Christmas bears some surface similarities to Groundhog Day. Both involve a man who wakes up every day reliving the holiday he hates until he learns to become a better person, but the hero in Just Another Christmas is in a "time jump" rather than a time loop. Each new day is the following Christmas, not the same one repeated. Everyone else has had a year's worth of living in between Christmases, including the protagonist, only he has no…