Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Ben-Hur 1959

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  Great movie but I wish the chariot scene was never shot. Imagine beating horses for the movie made in the spirit of Christ.

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  Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky 1981

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  Watched this on a whim while I'm reading TBK. Despite having read multiple books from him, including Notes from the Underground no less, I never pictured him as such a fractured, broken, lonely, miserable man. I don't know I always felt like he was above his characters' weaknesses and vanities, the Exalted one, just because he could see through all that but so did the Underground man. Of course, I'm not sure how accurate the movie is in depicting his…

Popular reviews

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  Stand by Me 1986

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Feb 2022

  New review

  It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your life, like busboys in a restaurant.

  They do and you can't do a goddamn thing to change that. When we leave, we might make promises to keep in touch and all but it's not the same. Not even close. Then gradually a time comes when you don't miss them anymore, you rather miss the time you spent with them, memories you shared with them and even if you…

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  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Apr 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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