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rating/reviewing here since July 7, 2013. Scroll back for cancelable takes!

Favorite films

  • Good Morning
  • Finding Nemo
  • The Rider
  • Zodiac

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  • Sherlock Jr.

    ★★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Anne at 13,000 Ft.

    ★★★½

  • Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic)

    ★★★★

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  • Sherlock Jr.

    Sherlock Jr.

    ★★★★★

    Clever, nodding if it were movie. Just makes you smile! High stakes (what if I drown) high stakes (what if I don’t give her a necklace). That Buster sure is a character!

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    In your black bag, is where you'll find me
    Cutting through the cracks of the concrete
    In your black bag, is where you'll find me waiting, oh

    It’s who you know…who you knowderbergh…Soderbergh!

    So did I enjoy this or Presence more? Insert “why don’t we have both?” GIF

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    There were a couple times when I thought it should either speed up or slow to a halt. But generally this was a good time at the movies! The kind of movie in 2025 that benefits from narration/exposition and Robert Pattinson led us through that brilliantly. Great setpieces between those more meandering moments. Cameron Britton as Arkady had some of the funniest side-character line deliveries that the whole crowd reacted to. Wish things popped visually a little more on the…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    “Do you think I look older?”
    “We are older.”

    An INCREDIBLY heavy start to movie-watching in 2025, but the kind of film I try to see more of, whether I’m really ready to handle it (who could be?) or not. The type of beautiful filmmaking of increasing ugliness that grabs your heart in its claws. Happy New Year.