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Recent reviews

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  No Other Land 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  A gripping indictment of the settler violence in the West Bank that draws its power from empathy and first hand perspective, an intimate and thorough record of how a Palestinian village was slowly destroyed and taken away from its community at the hands of Israeli settlers and the IDF. 

  We spend time with the key figures of the village, mostly centered around Basel Adra and his immediate family, as well as Israeli Journalist Yuval Abraham. While there are many high-stakes…

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  Gates of Heaven 1978

  Watched 24 Feb 2025

  blasting a mediocre guitar solo out onto all my loved ones graves right now

Popular reviews

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  Donnie Darko 2001

  ★★★★ Rewatched 02 Apr 2023 6

  Destruction is a form of creation.

  Screened in 4k at the Philadelphia Film Center, with a Q&A with the director Richard Kelly afterwards. People asked him the dumbest questions imaginable, someone asked about his takes on 9/11 and ChatGPT and my eyes rolled back into my skull. 

  Every time I see this movie I just want to watch it again.

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  The Fabelmans 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Nov 2022 1

  Jewish guy named Sammy that wants to be a filmmaker….

  I think my opinion here might be a little biased. 

  Despite the fact that I am physically unable to give this a bad review, I adored every second of it.

  I think Spielberg did a stellar job making a a self-biopic. I had a lot of reservations, but he was able to focus on the story of a family and a young boy with big dreams, without self-indulging or adding…