Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Sunset Boulevard is a drama film starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson about a struggling Hollywood writer who gets manipulated into living with an aging silent film star who believes she can still make a comeback. About five years ago I made a list in my notes app of essential movies to watch, as I realized I hadn’t seen incredibly popular movies like Jurassic Park, The Godfather, Jaws, and more. I also opened up that list to suggestions from my…

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  Daredevil 2003

  ★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Daredevil is a superhero film starring Ben Affleck about a blind vigilante trying to protect the city of Hell’s Kitchen. The Netflix (now Disney+) series Daredevil from 2015 is my favorite show of all time, so I decided to watch the movie that came before it (unrelated projects but about the same character). Maybe I’m just biased toward the show, but the movie does everything worse. Part of that is obviously because the show has more time to develop the…

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  Another Round 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Apr 2021 1

  The Oscars are coming up in two weeks, so I plan on watching 2020 Oscar nominated films until then. I won’t have time to watch all of them, but I’ll watch as many as I can. Another Round is nominated for Best Director and Best International Feature Film this year. This film takes place in Denmark and is entirely in Danish (I think). It stars Mads Mikkelsen and a bunch of other Danish actors (I would assume). The story follows…

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  The Gray Man 2022

  ★★★ Watched 03 Aug 2022 2

  The Gray Man is an action film starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans about an unidentifiable CIA agent uncovering agency secrets and being hunted down by assassins. This movie is pretty much the definition of a basic, cookie-cutter action movie. It’s full of clichés and predictable plot points, and yet I still kind of enjoyed it. Gosling is a bit of a boring protagonist, but I was rooting for him. His relationship with Claire is especially compelling and emotional at…

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