Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  "We're making a movie set in Poland. Quick - list down every Chopin nocturne you know."

  All jokes aside, there's a fun train sequence in the middle. Lavish shots of European countryside, and nonstop talk. Think: *Before Sunrise* but heavier on the history. Kieran Culkin, coming out of his successful *Succession* run, has found a nice little niche as lovable but volatile chatterbox.

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  Burn After Reading 2008

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  What a wild ride. But in a weird way it ends happily!

Popular reviews

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  Drive Into Night 2022

  ★★½ Watched 28 Mar 2023

  I'm not quite sure exactly what happened here. After two coworkers at a scrap metal factory end up murdering a woman, they pin the crime on their obnoxious boss. I thought the movie was going to be an adaptation of Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment*, especially as one of the guys, Akimoto, begins to have hallucinations stemming from his guilt. From there, however, the movie decides to shift gears into an entirely new, and in my perspective, unjustified, tangent: Akimoto ends…

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  The World After Us 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Feb 2023

  Here is another film that could have certainly done better with a few more minutes of character building, particularly with regards to Elisa. While we come to learn the quirky (and criminal) ways of our downtrodden but romantic hero Labidi, we know nothing of Elisa's motivations and feelings, and as a result everything feels one-sided. It's at least a minor relief that they didn't turn her into a complete manic pixie dream girl.