Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Marty 1955

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025 2

  A very nice movie, and an ominous warning about a dark future where more & more young people stay pointlessly single well into their 30s because they're stuck in ruts even they don't seem to enjoy.

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  Strange Darling 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

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

Popular reviews

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  Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jul 2024

  A phenomenal piece of work. I don't want to overstate its narrative audacity-- no one would confuse it with an experimental art film or something-- but its languid, elliptical storytelling is refreshing nonetheless. The viewers frustrated by this truly have my pity; the ones declaring that "nothing happens" in it get only scorn.

  For all the time Costner takes to let the film play out, he nonetheless manages to keep telling compelling stories about what happened OFFscreen. Like when the…

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  Roman Holiday 1953

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  A few years ago some dork got briefly outrage-famous on Twitter with a thread whining about how insulting & sexist it was that Audrey Hepburne is still primarily known as "an actress" despite the stunning magnitude of her humanitarian work.

  And it was like... dude, have you not seen her acting??