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Favorite films

  • Spirited Away
  • Nashville
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Cléo from 5 to 7

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  • The Rule of Jenny Pen

    ★★★★

  • Pedro Páramo

    ★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★½

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  • Fire

    Fire

    ★★★

    SAW: in SCA 112 (for CTCS 500)

  • 15 Years and One Day

    15 Years and One Day

    ★★½

    SAW: at the SGT

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  • Loro

    Loro

    ★★½

    Is it unfair to say that the hollow glitz of Silvio Berlusconi’s career is the ideal match for Paolo Sorrentino’s style? Admittedly, I see this film at a double disadvantage: never having seen his prior political biopic, Il Divo, and watching the 2h30m international version of Loro edited down from the two-part Italian release. The reduction clearly sells out the story in places: political rivals who seem like major players in the first reel never appear again, and the uncannily…

  • Good Madam

    Good Madam

    ★★★★

    If you ask me, Get Out and Parasite are the best haunted house movies in recent years, slicing open the underbellies of wealthy households to show the beasts crawling inside. At its best, Jenna Cato Bass' film about a post-Apartheid family cuts even deeper and closer to home, even if its scattershot approach dulls the overall impact. Tsidi (Chumisa Cosa), mourning the grandmother who raised her, returns to the Cape Town house where her mother Sisi (Nosipho Mtebe) has worked…