Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Stevie, my boy! Drop one of these a month, and I'm still seeing em all, guaranteed. This guy knows which parts of an espionage plot are interesting.

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  Heretic 2024

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I wish I loved it more, but The Leftovers ran so this could walk. (Great performances all around, though!)

Popular reviews

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  Christmas Crush 2019

  Watched 22 Dec 2021

  No movie since "That Thing You Do!" - a movie expressly about a pop song's rise to cultural ubiquity - has featured a single song as many times as this movie features "Make A Wish This Christmas". The viewer will hear it no fewer than 10 times in 90 minutes. Of those 10 times, at least 3 are the song in its entirety, and at least 6 are explicitly noted by characters hearing it on-screen. (In an agonizing karaoke scene,…

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  The Great Gatsby 2013

  ★½ Watched 14 Dec 2023

  Wow, this is so much worse than I remembered it being! But points to Baz for the Indian Jewish representation, casting Hindi cinema powerhouse Amitabh Bachchan as "Meyer Wolfsheim".