Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  I’m hooked…feel like the soundtrack’s the only thing I’m gonna listen to for a while

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  Hard Boiled 1992

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Probs my fav Tony Leung performance, which is saying something considering his body of work….peak John Woo was special

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Jul 2023

  Before heading into this, I was curious to find out what new concept Nolan was going to demystify. He’s taken shots at time, memory, magic, dreams, and the rest over the years, and a biopic doesn’t quite fit the bill. 

  The concepts Nolan deconstructs would seem abstract to most of us — bar folks like J. Robert Oppenheimer — before watching a Nolan film, but Nolan shows us that there’s a science behind these things. 

  This sort of logical breakdown…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2023

  This is the Scorsese movie of all Scorsese movies. The two leads are Scorsese hallmarks: the one seeking redemption for his sins and the one seeking redemption for her suffering. 

  Of course, there’s the violence that underlies American history that Scorsese has always shed a light on — only it’s on a much wider scale this time. Because of the run time and budget, he gets to tell a story at the scale of Gangs of New York, but with…

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