Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  A Woman Is a Woman 1961

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2020

  You know a movie is good when it makes you go "that movie was good."

Recent reviews

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  Mirror 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Jan 2025

  Movie is still a masterpiece, but the moviegoing experience was far from ideal. Who programs Tarkovsky at 10:30 am?

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  Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017

  ★★½ Watched 20 May 2024

  Could there be something more out of place than the Kafka and James Baldwin portraits in the detention room in this?

Popular reviews

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  Sound of Freedom 2023

  Watched 04 Jul 2023 17

  "God's children are not for sale."

  The rest of us are on the table, I guess.

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  The Graduate 1967

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Sep 2020

  Another film analysis I did for my class:

  As a decade filled with fear of nuclear war, paranoia of communist infiltration, and an increased prevalence of protests and movements such as civil rights and Vietnam, the sixties were a time of rising polarization and sociopolitical anxiety. The Graduate—released at the cusp of the decade, in December of 1967—addressed none of these topics. As Mike Nichols, the director of the film, recounts on the Criterion edition of The Graduate, every test…