Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Nope 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Jul 2022

  Jordan Peele has emerged as the new big name in horror. With his third feature film as a solo director, he explores more than that. Get Out and Us tackled ideas that helped birth a new genre of “Elevated horror” and while NOPE follows a similar path it explores multiple genres. There are times in this movie where you can kind of sense Peele has his hands in multiple jars and can see the potential of his film making if he…

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  Silence 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2022

  Long years of secrecy have made their faces into masks. Why do they have have to suffer so much? Why did God make them to bear such a burden?

  A test of endurance. From the characters to the viewer Silence is about stamina. It is not Scorsese’s question of faith but his view of internal struggle. Can you as a viewer bear watching religious freedom being ripped while also understanding the need to end imperialism? Can the priests grapple with…

Recent reviews

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  Across 110th Street 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Whether a gangster or a police officer, the most offensive thing you can tell them as a white man is a black counterpart is able to stand side by side with them. An example of how race amplifies issues in no need of amplifying.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Only way to describe Soderbergh’s run as of late is economical. Every decision is crafted, every shot is minimal yet creative, every line read is purposeful. Black Bag is exciting but never reaching for anything more than curiosity.

Popular reviews

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  The Blue Caftan 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2023 1

  Tag yourself, I’m the guy smoking blaring a boombox everyday

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  12 Angry Men 1957

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 May 2020

  I was worried the rewatch wouldn’t hold up but boy was I wrong. A classic through and through.