Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  Man…

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  The Last Black Man in San Francisco 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  Beautiful shots of the city made me miss SF so much... but then you start watching and remembering some of the city’s major issues (gentrification, income inequality, etc.) and it doesn’t feel as romantic anymore lol

  SF is my favorite city in America - in an indirect (and mostly upsetting) way, the movie gave me more perspective about how my enjoyment and depiction of a city is almost always linked to the injustice a local/native group endures. I would see…

Popular reviews

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  Paddington 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Jan 2025 1

  Cute movie, this dude Paddington is so silly

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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2024 2

  Entire movie felt slightly pretentious but I enjoyed it (i.e. scene with Tilda Swinton. I was a fan of the bear story).

  I liked how the main character started talking more to his victims the deeper he got into it - no words to the meat head, more to the wiser, more experienced hit-woman (relative to the latter), and the most to the person he thought orchestrated the attack. He went against his “morals” (that was articulated as his thoughts…

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