Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Master Gardener 2022

  ★★½ Watched 06 Jun 2023

  Honestly this just didn't quite work for me. It's a little too mannered. A French garden where I'd prefer a wild one.

  Full review here.

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  You Hurt My Feelings 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2023

  Is this the best movie about Impostor Syndrome ever made? I think it might be! Not that I would know anything about that. I deserve all of my success. And goshdarnit. People like me.

  Anyway, full review here.

Popular reviews

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  Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2022 4

  A genuine visual masterpiece, even if I have some quibbles with the deployment of the HFR (which is good and immersive in 3D). The story is an improvement on the first, though still not, you know, going to win anyone a screenplay Oscar.

  Full review here.

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  Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Jul 2020 9

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

  Did Cliff do it?

  Murder his wife, I mean. There's an intentional ambiguity to the question, an open-endedness. After all, we never see him pull the trigger on that speargun, even if we see his finger curled around it in violation of gun safety etiquette. Kurt Russell's character seems to think he did, as do others on the set of THE GREEN HORNET. Rick, on the other hand, brushes that aside as nonsense. An unfair pejorative slapped on a war…