Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

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

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  3 Women 1977

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  A punch to the gut- Sissy Spacek and Shelly Duvall just give amazingly layered and deeply emotional performances. The cinematography is beautiful and innovative as fuck- especially the dream sequences leading into the final act… One of those rare films by a celebrated male director that feels genuinely rooted in a feminine perspective.

  Shout out to the Turner Classic Movies channel for finally forcing me to watch this!

Popular reviews

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Oct 2021

  Blessed be the maker.
  A revelation, a cultural reset. A very faithful and entertaining adaptation that manages to convey the sweeping, massive, planetary scale of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic. 

  Rebecca Ferguson EATS in her role as Lady Jessica. 
  Also big ups to the costume department- I loved the attention to detail on how the Fremen stillsuits actually looked like they have been worn and weathered by the harsh, desert climate on Arrakis. 

  Could have been a perfect movie if not for a few weird cuts and some questionable editing decisions.

  Saw at the Nickelodeon in Portland, Maine.

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  Judas and the Black Messiah 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Feb 2021

  This is a thoroughly impressive directorial debut that features some top-notch performances, especially from Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, and Dominique Fishback. The tone is appropriately serious and disturbing. The fact that this film is so uncomfortable to watch is a testament to Shaka King's ability to handle historical subject matter with extreme care. There were a few moments when it veered toward seeming too dramatized and, on the opposite ends of the spectrum, moments that may feel dry and over-serious…