Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Layer Cake
  • There Will Be Blood

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  • Oppenheimer

    ★★★★

  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    ★★½

  • Rush

    ★★½

  • Amsterdam

    ★½

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  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    ★★★★

    Felt entirely justified seeing this in the 70mm IMAX projection. The scope and scale truly rewards it. Not just a technical achievement, which is so often the case for a Nolan film, but also in casting and writing. The Nolan info dump is here and I am still not a fan.

  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    ★★½

    Pass comprehensive right-to-repair legislation.

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  • No Time to Die

    No Time to Die

    ★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    I have this theory that the best of the post-Connery Bond films are not those directed by people who really love the series, but those directed by people who see its many faults. And this one is mighty good in part because of that.

    I appreciate how this resolves the arc of Craig's films, even if it was forcibly retconned into being. This was a well-told and gripping way to end this reboot experiment. It's just retro enough that it…

  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout

    Mission: Impossible – Fallout

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    The big twist is obvious from the start. The ending is obvious. There are a lot of clichés. It doesn’t matter because the screenwriters know you know all of this, and they still make it clever by a mile.