Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Chinatown 1974

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 May 2023

  Dread drenched in daylight. Sublime.

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  A Woman Under the Influence 1974

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 May 2023

  There are movies that move you in a way where you can feel the tears coming. Then, there are movies like this one, where the tears are already streaming down your face before you even realize what you’re feeling.

Popular reviews

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Oct 2022 8

  So rarely are women allowed to play and vamp onscreen in such thorny, tragic roles. Daniel Day-Lewis, Al Pacino, and F. Murray Abraham have all played men who’ve flown too close to the sun and here, Blanchett says, “my turn.”

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  The Whale 2022

  ★½ Watched 29 Nov 2022 1

  There is an honest and empathetic film this year with a leading male performance that is sensitive, true, and unburdened by a dated, heavy-handed script. The performances from the cast are delicately calibrated. The film beautifully depicts a complicated father’s realization that he maybe should’ve done things differently. When we reach that beautiful ending, our director has earned the emotional catharsis. That film is not called The Whale. It is called Aftersun.

  Aronofsky can’t help but retreat to his usual brand of…