Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hamilton 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jul 2020

  Presentation is kinda funky, but the show itself remains excellent.

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  Kareem: Minority of One 2015

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jun 2020

  The Last Dance ended weeks ago. My rekindled interest in great basketball players apparently has not.

Popular reviews

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  The Last Farm 2004

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2014

  A meditation on devotion and generational disconnect in the mode of Ozu. It treats death with dignity, tenderness, and ultimately a resigned acceptance.

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  Rodney King 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 May 2017

  "Fuck Rodney King," Roger Guenver Smith says in the opening moments of his spoken-word-poetry-essay-performance-art-one-man concert film directed by Spike Lee about the night of the Los Angeles man's police beating that spawned riots. 

  It's a horrifying and provocative start that is a red herring. I can't say it is "thankfully" a red herring because Smith's words are an indictment of our culture and its obsession with fame, the impossible and conflicting standards its people inflict on its public figures (especially…

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