Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Best child acting performance I’ve seen since Cinema Paradiso. In a film where Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi and Sam Rockwell are at the absolute peak of their game, Roman Griffin David and Thomasin McKenzie shine through and raise the film from charming status to carrying true emotional weight. Roman in particular sells the inability of a young boy to truly understand the world around him in a way that shows an understand of empathy far beyond his years. Can’t believe…

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  Detour 1945

  ★★½ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  Some good moments, but not anything special, really. I think it’s intending to be a satire of noir played straight, but it’s played so incredibly straight that it just falls flat.

Popular reviews

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  Corduroy 1984

  ★★½ Watched 23 Aug 2024

  Finally found it - I remember watching this as a 2 year old and being unbelievably creeped out by the whole scene of the bear desperately trying to pull a button out of the mattress

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  Ben-Hur 1959

  ★★★ Watched 05 Jul 2024

  Incredible in scope and spectacle, but melodramatic and plodding to an extent I can’t justify or accept as the cost of a religious epic. Especially compared to other epics of the time (Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia especially), Ben-Hur markedly comes up short in my opinion. Still worth watching to appreciate all that it does do extremely well.

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