Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mission: Impossible 1996

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  This fucking rocks. While there’s other Mission Impossible movies that I might like more, this one is so different and clearly not as interested in establishing a 7 film (8? More?) franchise. While there are incredible action set-pieces in this, the core of this story works as a paranoid, tense spy thriller. Cruise plays the young and more critical Hunt really well, De Palmas direction is idiosyncratic and excellent for the tone of this spy thriller, and Danny Elfman’s score…

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  Michael Clayton 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Sleek, dark, stylized legal mystery thriller. Clooney, Swinton and Wilkinson are all really great in this. These kinds of movies are not typically my thing but this was pretty good. Pacing, story, writing all good, just not my vibe overall (whole thing did feel doomed and awful tho kinda)

Popular reviews

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  A Clockwork Orange 1971

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Jul 2024 2

  Such an upsetting but also very funny movie.

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  Swiss Army Man 2016

  ★★★½ Rewatched 02 Feb 2024

  Giving yourself the freedom to he happy, and to feel comfortable and to enjoy yourself can be hard to do. I think the core of this movie wants to tell you all of these things are okay. But it also wants to make a whole lot of fart jokes which I happen to find very funny. What a balance. 

  Enjoyed this a lot more the first time I saw it a few years ago. Also, the skill and craftsmanship that Daniels develop between this and EEAAO is insane. Not that this movie looks or feels bad, but holy shit they leveled up for that 2nd feature.