Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Blast of Silence 1961

  ★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2023

  Bleak!

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  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989

  ★★ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  First time viewing. It turns out that Randy Quaid has become a crazed Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist.

Popular reviews

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  A Week Away 2021

  ★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2021 2

  There's a moment where the Zac Efron clone jumps onto an inflatable summer camp "blob" on the lake while singing a rendition of Steven Curtis Chapman's 1999 CCM classic "Dive" and, having grown up in the American evangelical subculture, I truly felt seen.

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  A Hidden Life 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 May 2019 1

  "A Hidden Life is both the most Christian and the most political of Terrence Malick’s films. At 173 minutes, it’s also the longest, surpassing The Thin Red Line by three minutes. While some may balk at the expansive running time, Malick makes every minute count in this real-life story about Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, portrayed here by August Diehl. The film was originally titled Radegund, the name of the edenic mountain village where Franz and his beloved wife, Fani…