Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Star Is Born 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  If I live a life worth my salt then I can only hope I created the kind of relationships necessary for Is That Alright to be sung at my funeral

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  West Side Story 2021

  ★★★★½ Added

  Spielberg has so much innate juice as a director he's basically overdosing on it like jesus christ

  I remember one of my takeaways after seeing this and hearing it did poorly being how much I hoped Zegler's career took off
  3 going on 4 years later, and good for her.

Popular reviews

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  The Inventor 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Sep 2023

  A beautiful, sincere, and above all delightful piece of passionate craftsmanship that shines in every shot with the creators' evident desire to make it.

  I can see kids/unenchanted adults being bored, and I fear its pacing would suffer on rewatch. But even if repeat viewings might have to put up with possible dead air and a somewhat meandering plot, The Inventor's consistently charming and sporadically breathtaking animation alongside it's insistence on keeping it's heart proudly on its sleeve means it will likely continue to demand attention and maintain it's grip on your heart with every fresh watch.

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  Ne Zha 2 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Most literal and figurative example of "maturation through fire" possible

  The movie starts off solid to begin with, but then it suddenly it flips a switch and instantly from then on this sh*t goes places man.

  I could go on about how effective and textbook this movie's protagonist arc is as an example of the heroes journey and coming of age and the symbolic crossing over from childhood into adolescence for the main character, but that would be a big…

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