Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2023 1

  The way the score teases you with a slower take on the classic Godzilla theme early on, then later at the perfect moment it deploys it at full tempo and intensity? That's how it feels to chew 5 Gum.

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  Mank 2020

  ★★★ Watched 18 Nov 2023

  reboot of Punk'd called Mank'd where pete davidson tricks celebs into watching Mank

Popular reviews

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  The Night of the Hunter 1955

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2021 3

  Cold take: Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) might be the devil incarnate, but Icey Spoon (Evelyn Varden) is more dangerous.

  The transparency of Powell's whole gimmick is as exaggerated as the expressionist style Laughton uses to tell the tale. But Icey takes his schtick at face value, and leverages the trust her community has in her to give him an in-road for his sinister plans. It doesn't matter that young John Harper is immediately suspicious of him. Or that Powell's charm…

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  The Heartbreak Kid 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2021 5

  KELLY: it's kinda cute how you are wrecking your whole life for me

  LENNY: 🥺 oh i can wreck it WAY more

  All joking aside, I would like to get back to origins. Many people, they don't think like this but I think we've taken enough out of Letterboxd in many ways, y'know? I feel that all of us should think about putting something back in.