Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Rewatch showing mom, she loved it, it makes me very happy.  So many beautiful abstract metaphors, so much fun.  More fun seeing her slap her leg and react at all the dramaaaa.

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  Piece By Piece 2024

  ★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  55. Never index your own book.

  - It took a while to get into the swing of things and for me to have fun with it.
  - Vanity?
  - I've always had problems with films where it felt like you couldn't look beyond the set they take place in. Throughout the film's entirety, there was no sense of scale or the outside world beyond the set of the scene. It may have been intentional, so it was like a lego…

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999

  ★★½ Added 1

  87.5% trash, 12.5% gold, 100% nostalgia.

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  Opus 2025

  ★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025 1

  3 takeaways,

  nice stylistically, clear lineage from the film Get Out (and so on) to this, and I didn’t gain anything from this aesthetically or intellectually.  As much as that’s a bore to say, there wasn’t much I could take away from this other than being mad at an ending and wanting to raise my hand about Ancient Rome.