Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977

  ★★★★ Rewatched 29 May 2023

  If this were released today, it would be a Sundance drama. Casting Truffaut is such a flex.

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  Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009

  ★★★½ Rewatched 27 May 2023

  I hated this when it came out. But watching it again with two kids is pretty good.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Nov 2022

  Chazelle directs this thing like it's going to be the last movie ever made and if so, it's a fitting epitaph for cinema. The film is fearless and Chazelle leaves it all on the field but I wish the ending landed for me.

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★ Watched 14 Apr 2023

  While I prefer Aster's nightmare surrealism to Charlie Kaufman's in Synecdoche, NY and I'm Thinking of Ending Things, he still badly needs an editor. The first forty minutes are laugh-out-loud funny but after 3 hours of Aster emptying his subconscious, just becomes exhausting. I'm glad he got this out of his system.