Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Ring 1952

  Watched 19 Sep 2023 2

  accurately describing microaggression in 1952

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  The Shadow of the Strongman 1960

  Rewatched 06 Sep 2023 6

  one of the great political thrillers

Popular reviews

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  All That Heaven Allows 1955

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2015 6

  i braced myself for disappointment at the start of this vaunted classic i've been dodging for years-- but i needn't have worried. it seems that growing up in soulless white suburbia, reading thoreau as a kid and knowing there was something- anything- beyond the nightmare of bourgeois conformity was just preparing me for this moment. i'm still stunned at how hard it hit me. my parents never understood but sirk did, and long before i was born

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  The Quiet Man 1952

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Oct 2015 4

  it's been 10 years or more since i last tried to watch this - and found it a garish mess of blatant stereotypes and macho posturing, condescending and far too sentimental. barry fitzgerald's character might as well be a leprechaun in this fairy tale place. certainly the charms of john wayne eluded me. but a dozen ford films and as many years later it's a completely different experience. the green world is a mythic plane - like monument valley or…