Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  In Bruges 2008

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Never gets old. Some of my favorite dialogue ever. Brilliant flick.

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  Snatch 2000

  ★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Still so fun. Classic

Popular reviews

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jun 2024 3

  A film that is simultaneously sad and terrifying. Vanity, narcissism, and the futile need for control; seeing how these traits can eat a person from the inside-out until there is nothing left but a hollow, soulless, husk is quite disturbing to watch, but this has doubtless been the fate of many a victim of Hollywood stardom. The way Norma’s enablers allow it to go on is also quite disconcerting in it’s own sick way; is it really mercy? The wittiness…

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  Eyes Wide Shut 1999

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Oct 2024 2

  Kubrick never ceases to astonish me with his frightening intelligence and his profound insight into the dark reality of the lower nature of mankind. 
  With his final film he delves deep into the hopelessly damned relation between man and woman; unmasking the folly of our very different yet symmetrically fallacious fantasies. He pairs the twisted wickedness of femininity right up against the naive brutishness of masculinity, and has them waltz together for two and a half riveting hours. Going so…

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