Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Cotton Club 1984

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2023

  Encore.

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  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Sep 2023

  Ralph Fiennes delivering Ronald Dahl’s rich people taunts.  Big fan of that sort of thing.

Popular reviews

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  mother! 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Sep 2017 7

  *06.21.22 — please stop reading this trash*

  I am reluctant to talk about this film too much.  Darren Aronofsky created something unholy here.  It feels wrong to air this film so callously.  He made a film about creation.  In any form.  You can apply it to whatever form of creation you wish.  Creation, art, God, nature.  And the cost.

  I am honestly stunned by the unnerving honesty on display in this film.  It became pretty clear pretty early on with…

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  Cape Fear 1991

  ★★ Watched 04 Apr 2017 3

  Trashy, amateurishly shot and conceived, weak characterizations despite a more in depth exploration of the core relationships, and a tone that gets hammier and less tolerable as it wears on.

  DeNiro starts off doing some interesting things with the physicality of the role, taking some good cues from Mitchum's performance but the bad accent gets worse and in the climax he chews through every bit of scenery he can find, and his performance feels more inspired by 90s Batman villains…