Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Godfather Part III 1990

  Watched 13 Oct 2024

  Watched the recut Coda version.

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  Barbarian 2022

  Watched 12 Nov 2022

  A two-hour montage of people walking into ever-deeper basements is my idea of an ideal horror experience.

Popular reviews

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  Call Me by Your Name 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2018

  CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is a lot of things you might not expect from a late year “prestige” film. It’s an experiential intimate drama centered on a small story where sensory details matter as much as plot. It’s a catapult for young star Timothée Chalamet (who also shines in this year’s LADY BIRD) and a reinvigoration for Armie Hammer (who feels more at home here than he does in most of his recent attempts at mainstream leading man flicks).…

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  War for the Planet of the Apes 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Jul 2017

  The American blockbuster encourages prolonged adolescence in a way that's become tiresome. Maybe it's because the target demographic for blockbusters is supposedly adolescent males; maybe it's because the PG-13 rating mandated by most blockbusters requires filmmakers and studios to enter an adolescent state of mind to make something appealing to families; or maybe it's because culturally, we have entered a state of mind akin to collective arrested development. Whatever the reason, the American blockbuster is now comprised almost entirely of…