Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Nov 2023

  What a beautiful film. I could watch Koji go about his day-to-day life for hours. It’s about romanticizing small details, and using the repetitive nature of modern society as a mediation of sorts while not forgetting to fill your downtime with the things you love.

  There is a bit of a darker note to the way the protagonist is living his life because he’s “hiding” somewhat from troubling feelings he holds about past events in his life.

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  The Boys in the Boat 2023

  ★★½ Watched 28 Nov 2023

  Redbox dad movie that you put on after Christmas dinner that the whole family can watch without grandpa getting mad

Popular reviews

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  Men 2022

  ★★★★ Added 10

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

  Alex Garland isn't shy about making ambiguous films--while Ex Machina (2014) was a fairly straightforward sci-fi flick, his follow-up film Annihilation (2018) delved heavily into surreal territory and had an ending that was cryptic to say the least. His latest film Men (2022) dives headfirst into full on allegory territory, and is destined to be divisive and heavily discussed for a long time.

  Jessie Buckley plays Harper, a young woman who has just exited a toxic marriage to her ex-husband…

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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 03 May 2022 3

  There is a moment, about halfway through this film, where you can pinpoint the exact second where the Disney suits said, "Alright Sam Raimi, you can do whatever you want now that we have all of our contractually obligated by-the-books exposition out of the way!" and off Raimi goes like a demon unleashed from Hell. They essentially let him make half of a horror movie with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), and that horror film is really…