Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Unforgiven 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Mar 2025

  “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it”: probably one of the most perfect lines in cinema.

  An explanation for why the world is the way it is, and a self-justifying excuse to pretend it can never be otherwise.

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  Watched 01 Mar 2025

  Admire the vision and audacity but I just don’t think the formal conceit works. Sorry!

Popular reviews

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  La Belle Noiseuse 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Jun 2020 5

  An ideal Sunday afternoon movie, and also the first Rivette film I've fully connected with. The runtime is intimidating, but there's something to be said for a movie that recalibrates the way you experience time. Oddly transfixing.

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  The Irishman 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Nov 2019 2

  I saw someone on Twitter compare this to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and I'll be damned if there isn't something to it. Both are "late films" par excellence, with a great director looking back on the genre that defined him (in the popular imagination, anyway) in uncharacteristically elegiac mode. Both are haunted by death and history, the stories we choose to tell and the ones that the world forgets. Both have a strange artificiality about age that becomes…