Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Jaws 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jul 2023

  Just… amazing. Robert Shaw for MVP.

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  Bad Teacher 2011

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Jun 2023

  The dry humping scene really got me.

Popular reviews

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  The Power of the Dog 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Dec 2021

  I’ve seen very view films that fully capture the intent of the filmmaker, whatever that intention may be—whether it’s a deep study of someone’s character, motivations, and actions, or whether it’s an attempt to expose one of life’s absurdities, or maybe capture a moment in time as it was and why it was. Whatever the artist takes aim at, 99% of the time it’s partially missed or missed entirely, or maybe I simply miss what’s being intended. It seems just…

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  Lincoln 2012

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Nov 2021

  I’m coming to this pretty late but… doesn’t quite live up to the hype for me. Everything felt like a set, which it obviously was, but still. A little heavy on the costume-drama vibes. I was expecting a grittier, maybe more Barry-Lyndon version of this story, but I guess that’s on me. 

  It is oddly refreshing to realize that US politics has never not been an unhinged, goat rodeo and that we aren’t in unprecedented times. Yay.

  Also, Tommy Lee…

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