Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Up in the Air 2009

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  What I like about this movie is specifically how the ending will be read. If you are a cynic, George Clooney’s character will forever be trapped in a lonely cycle of his own making. But if you are an optimist, you will have noticed that this is the first time in an airport that he doesn’t know where he is going. He doesn’t go straight to get his ticket but he looks at the long list of places to go.…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  You know what is fascinating about a movie like this? The amount of creativity on the screen is notable, and there’s such an energy in it. At the same time, this is such a shaggy film. There are so many ideas in it that there isn’t much time to develop all of them. Characters literally disappear from the plot as soon as they get interesting (why introduce the weird “she has perfect genes” character in a movie about clones if…

Popular reviews

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  The Persian Version 2023

  ★★★ Watched 24 Oct 2023

  There was a Q&A afterwards with the Director/Writer and that helped clarify the film much more than the film itself. Part of the problem stems from the fact that this movie is about EVERYTHING. The intergenerational conflict. An immigrant story. A wacky rom com. A My Big Fat Greek Wedding companion piece. But also a dire coming of age story set in Iran halfway through changes this story into something else, that I wish was it’s own separate story. As…

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  How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Apr 2023

  The political lens: fantastic 
  The heist genre: perfectly suited for the material 
  The twists and turns: amazing 

  Then why was I left feeling a bit cold by the end? I think it’s because instead of having deeply personal resolutions, it feels like we left the characters in cliffhangers and pivoted to resolve the bigger political stances.

  A call to arms for sure, and one I will watch again. I think it’ll be better on a rewatch.