Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★½ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  An okay movie with some excellent motifs dispersed through enough to keep me interested. Using Jewish diaspora as an allegory for your struggles as a punished artist is extremely distasteful to put it mildly. And to be so ambivalent about it and use Israel as an ambiguous cudgel is strange. That's the bad taste that's left in my mouth.

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Probably should have been slower.

Popular reviews

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  Dunkirk 2017

  ★★ Watched 20 Jul 2017

  This movie really makes me question how good of a filmmaker Chris Nolan really is. His prior films were bolstered by the pre-created fandom and lore of Batman and his other hits (The Prestige and Memento) had great screenplays. Now, I am by no means saying he is not a good filmmaker, because he certainly is crafty and nearly a perfectionist, but what I question is if he is an auteur.

  Nolan knows how to create a scene and make…

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  Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2015

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.