Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Isle of Dogs 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  I feel all sentimental and stuff. 

  Would have liked a little more punch. Beautifully made.

  Yoko Ono?

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  Novocaine 2025

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Hoped this one would be more fun.

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Pros: Robert Pattinson is fantastic and I love his career. He should be allowed to do silly little voices in incredibly committed ways forever.

  Cons: Ending just sort of all happened because it had to for movie to movie and Ruffalo’s Trump Guy is so unbelievably on the nose. The line about him losing reelection twice?

  I love watching movies in the middle of the week day. Extra half star for the fact that I got to do that.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  I think this really, really did work for me. Brody and Jones and Pearce give fantastic performances, the movie was well shot and well composed for so little, and I just bought in so entirely.

  In terms of messages and themes of the movie, I do understand but disagree with the idea that this is a Zionist work. I think it’s a reflection of hurt, of the aftermath of genocide, of immigrant diaspora and treatment and all these things- and…