Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Who knew you could arrange a great espionage movie around two dinner table scenes? If anyone can do it, it's gotta be Soderbergh.

  Exceptionally tight spy thriller with calculated and imposing performances. Really loved discovering Marisa Abuela and Tom Burke as strong supporting characters, and as expected, Fassbender and Blanchett remain powerhouses as these manipulative, but fearful spouses. 

  Soderbergh manages to keep this story precise and direct without falling into bureaucratic pits or waves of unnecessary characters and information by…

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  The Electric State 2025

  ★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  A shame that some pretty creative character/world design and most likely exhaustive CGI work will be lost to such a lame movie.

  Leaning far too hard on an Avengers formula, including Chris Pratt getting to be Star-Lord again, there's so much that just falls flat. 

  However, I did enjoy the Arrested Development easter egg.

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Nov 2024

  Anora plays some of the strongest defense I've ever seen, right up until that final shot.

  Sean Baker brings us another fantastically tragic and wild ride with wild people. Anora and Ivan's blissful ignorance turned family debacle draws you in with the magic of young love then begins to tear the layers off as things fall apart. Once the glamor goes away, everything slows down. Baker brings his editing and camerawork to a much more reluctant pace, shattering this delusion…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  With his now fourth picture, one thing has be come obviously apparent: Robert Eggers loves the dark.

  Whether it be creepy, eerie, despair-wrecked, or deceit Eggers is there to craft it into something with tangible cinematic feeling. And with this classic fable, Eggers is firing on all cylinders to make this something really special.

  Keeping things surprisingly simple for this story, as this tale barely deviates from its other adaptions, but is still strongly focused on the style of it…