Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2023

  Doesn’t quite live up to the promise of the premise but it is still a lot of fun and both Cage and Pascal are fantastic. I’m still smiling from the Captain Corelli’s Mandolin joke.

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  Radio Days 1987

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Jun 2022

  A perfectly paced, narrated, and acted comedy about nostalgia and what by-gone times feel like in retrospect. Woody Allen ruled the 1980s.

Popular reviews

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  Dogville 2003

  ★ Added 5

  Lars von Trier: Knock knock.
  Me: Who's there?
  LvT: Sadness.
  Me: Sadness, who?
  LvT: I hate America.

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  Gap-Toothed Women 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2014 3

  I'm not sure if there's a better film at highlighting exactly what a good documentary can do and how it does it. This begins with a marginal premise and by determined yet casual focus on that premise at some point flips the tables on the viewer by firmly establishing the viewer within the context of the subject and thereby changing the viewer's impression of the subject. This has happened not so much by polemical argument or emotional appeal, but in…