Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Invitation to a Murder 2023

  ★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Mischa Barton is giving it her all and I appreciate it.

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  Under the Tuscan Sun 2003

  ★★★★ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  “Creepy Italian trees.” 

  En route to Rome

Popular reviews

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  Enemy at the Gates 2001

  ★★ Watched 01 Jul 2016 1

  The Scene:

  Hot off the battlefield, looking handsome as ever, decorated sniper Vassili (Jude Law) is rushed into a decadent Russian party for a public engagement. Battered by journalists asking useless (to him, to the plot and to the audience) questions, Vasilli freezes in the camera flashes. A bafoonish, Nikita Krushchev (Bob Hoskins) ambles to his side and wraps an arm around our protagonist proclaiming, "The Germans have begun to SHIT their pants." The two men proceed to pay respects…

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  Lost in Translation 2003

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jul 2016

  The Scene

  After a long flight and an even longer photoshoot Bob Harris (Bill Murray) finds himself as possibly one of the least excited men in history to find a prostitute at his door. The woman who almost looks like she works for the hotel first offers a suggestive "massage" then she implores Murray's character to "lip" her stockings. Unamused Murray seeks clarification in an almost mocking way until the realization comes that she means rip. This failure of communication…

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