Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Den of Thieves 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Once this film picks up (pretty much the entire second half) and fully commits to being a kick-ass action movie, it nails it.

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  The Penalty 1920

  ★★½ Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Film School Drop Outs 2025
  Week 8 - Studio - Metro, Goldwyn, or Mayer

  The second act sucks. There is a complete disconnect from the 1st to 3rd acts and yeah, it simply cannot be ignored. Chaney is great throughout but unfortunately the narrative cannot match this vigor. Better than average considering the release year of 1920 but can't recommend this too highly.

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Oct 2018

  Film #1/42
  Hoop-tober 5.0
  letterboxd.com/tonguetied/list/hoop-tober-50-sophomore-year-with-the-wolves/

  What a stunning film from Herzog, the best vampire film I have seen, and a satisfying blend of philosophical wonderings, with great pauses in plays allowing full momentum of each powerful line, shadows that out-duel the original (rightfully so given technological advances) and a mood that keeps you in dread from the opening. Kinski's body movement and specifically his hand gestures (as well as his jump to acceleration when throwing the chair in the dinner…

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  The Savages 2007

  ★★½ Watched 27 May 2018

  About as average as it gets, despite tremendous work from Linney and Hoffman leading the way. The sort of film you can pretty much guess each step along the way and in that way, it finds a way to annoy me. Give me dark and emotional or give me light-hearted with humor. Mixing tones, while a few manage to successfully do this, is hard to accomplish. The film tries to have it's funny moments...but they never really come across as being...funny.