Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Versus 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2023

  Imagine if pre-LOTR Peter Jackson or Sam Raimi made a samurai movie, and also there's zombies.

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  Don't Look Now 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2023

  It's now October tradition to see Donald Sutherland react to things in a Horror movie. This played like an Anglo-giallo mixed with a folkish possession film. It was an unsettling slow burn that played tricks on your mind. The horror comes from the unease Nicolas Roeg creates through the magnificent editing. Don't Look Now may have the best opening and ending sequence from a movie of this ilk.

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 20 May 2022

  Raccaccoonie taught me so much

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  The Thin Red Line 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2023

  Terrence Malick creates an atmosphere and tone that makes it almost impossible to accuse this film of glorifying war. The one aspect that occasionally took me out of it was the inner thoughts expressed through voiceover narration. None of the characters struck me as a sage or a poet, so I was unsure where these well-articulated thoughts came from. It felt like the soldiers had split personalities or two entirely different movies were mashed together. Still, I felt like I…