Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Crossing Delancey 1988

  ★★★★ Rewatched 26 Feb 2025

  Loved the Jonathan Demme like vibrancy and specificity of the city, with its tender bent towards women’s spaces in public and private. 
  Peter Riegert’s sly charm worked on me this second time around. The Dutch one is still repulsive.

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  Wild at Heart 1990

  ★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  Consistently impressed by Laura Dern’s commitment to keep it turned up to 11 at all times. But let’s face it, she gets it from her mama.

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2024 1

  This grinds to a halt at the same place as Funny Girl, on the ship with the handsome gambling louse. 
  Also the place where Bella discovers cruelty -not in any European city, that’s all sex and pastries, she has to go to Alexandria’s crumbling ruins for that. 

  Emma Stone carries a lot, through the puddles of repetition and bad British accents. While there are periods of delightful effervescence, it only takes us so far.

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2022

  Wildly audacious and braggadocious, especially the ending where Chazelle attempts to place this film and its images on par with Singin’ in the Rain and 2001: A Space Odyssey (that literally had me holding my face and gasping aloud in shock and embarrassment “Oh My God”). That being said, it had me at its title credit. Not the best acting and one too many flaccid monologues about the power of movies and the lasting images of flickering lights etc… but…

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