Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Chungking Express 1994

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  If memories could be canned, would they also have expiration dates? 
  If so, I hope they last for centuries.

  Much like Tony Leung’s Cop 663, I actually remember the very first time I ever heard California Dreamin’ in my own life. I was 17 and my classmates’ cover band chose to sing it at our annual talent show. It was three of them on stage with three microphones and no accompaniment; all a cappella. I was… taken aback. The hope…

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  Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 2015

  ★★★½ Rewatched 14 Feb 2025

  Always bet on Blart.

  A ridiculously fun time with a genuinely engaging plot.
  So funny.

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★ Watched 17 Nov 2024

  People see what they want to see.
  They never ask who you really are.

  Before all else, the pacing, casting, cinematography, and soundtrack are outstanding. Anora looks beautiful and brings you along for this whirlwind of a story as if you were right there along with it. It’s a good time at the movies.

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  First of all, the characters themselves are not believable in their roles:

  1) The Armenian goons, for one, are not threatening in the slightest and their…

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Aug 2022

  Wow.

  Movie. Of. The. Year.

  Filmmaking at its finest. Action at its finest. Nostalgia at its finest. Cast at their finest. Script at its finest.

  Tom Cruise at his finest.

  Manages to not only hold its own as a sequel to one of the greatest movies of all time, but surpasses the original in every way. Out of the water.

  God (and everyone else) knows how much I love Top Gun (1986) but this one….. hot damn. 

  Honestly one of the…

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