Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  May December 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  It be two dumbass girls telling each other "exactlyyyyy"

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  Four Lions 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  “He must have been the target, I just shot him” had me howling

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★½ Watched 21 Jul 2023

  For about an hour, Barbie is fizzy, pleasantly self-aware, lightly absurd, predictably branded fun—definitely enhanced by the VERY engaged crowd, shout out to the audience AMC River East 7/21 7:45 showing, you’re all my best friends now. The jokes hit, the whimsy tickles, and the actors are having the time of their lives (and it’s infectious!). Gosling, Robbie, Ferrara, Greenblatt, and Liu all give impressively committed performances with, in some cases, seemingly impossible non-characters. 

  Alas, none of them can salvage the…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Oct 2023 1

  That "Killers of the Flower Moon" is the finest achievement of Scorsese's career is obvious; just as importantly, though, it also locates his long-running thematic obsessions in a historical frame of reference that effectively clears the table of American self-mythologizing, making room for an altogether different kind of story. Where we go from here is unclear, given the state of the industry; will an auteur ever command a budget of this size, for a film of this gravity and intensity,…

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