Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Fletch 1985

  ★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2023

  It's interesting to see different celebrity personas inhabit this character. Hamm's take wants to accommodate both his effortless cool from Mad Men and the doofus comedic persona he's cultivated to escape Don Draper. He almost does it. Chevy wants it too bad. He can't help clowning, and his smugness is much more cloying. He doesn't trust the material to make him look good, which is his curse.

  Interesting the third one homages the first so hard, but it is a…

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  Pearl 2022

  ★★ Watched 31 Dec 2022

  Ti West does nail the Texas location details, but neither one of these is really any good.

Popular reviews

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  The Lighthouse 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Oct 2019

  More like the Gaslight House, amiright?

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  The Tiger Hunter 2016

  ★★ Watched 06 Feb 2018

  I was very ready to love this movie. A South Asian co-writer/director and an all-star Desi cast, what else can you ask for? Unfortunately this one never really lived up to its potential. The plot was very stock, though the characters kept the film watchable. Most notable in the cast is Rizwan Manji as a pop-culture obsessed sidekick.

  Strangely, the whole thing comes across as a paean to assimilation. The plot concerns star Dani Pudi and company trying to eke…