Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Causeway 2022

  ★★½ Watched 09 Jun 2023

  This was...fine?

  We're they going for just ok? Because they nailed it.

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  Air 2023

  ★★ Watched 06 Jun 2023

  This could have used some Sorkin-esque pacing. This is like a mildly interesting story, I know sneakers are hot right now but not sure we needed a movie about Michael Jordan deciding which shoe brand he felt he could get the most money out of.

Popular reviews

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  Come and See 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Aug 2014 9

  Jesus Christ. On second thought, let's not send 13 year olds to war.

  This is one of the most powerful war films I've ever seen. I've had a pretty great upbringing thus far in life and I've never personally experienced an atrocity so it's hard to relate or make judgements on how this compares to the real thing. Some movies do a good job of capturing what war can be like. From what I read, films like Saving Private Ryan,…

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  Birth 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2014 18

  The next Stanley Kubrick? I don't think we'll ever get another Kubrick...But I do think I'm okay with having a Jonathan Glazer.

  Glazer is an extremely visual director. In that regard, he is very similar to Kubrick. Every sequence is more focused on the frame than what is going on inside of it. Without context, every shot can be pulled out and it's art. The story is forced to work around the frame and the movie pulls much of it's…