Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  John Wick: Chapter 4 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2023

  There was much talk of consequences in 3. This has them.

  Long live the king

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  The Usual Suspects 1995

  ★★★½ Rewatched 24 Mar 2023

  The poster child of 90's IMDb top 250 mainstays that you hail as a masterpiece when you watch at 15 without knowing the big twist and being wet behind the ears to noir. Masterpiece it ain't, but it moves well and does spin a thoroughly compelling yarn that's easy to get swept up in, even as it's punctuated with a "Gotcha!" that believes itself to be far more clever than it is.

Popular reviews

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  Moonlight 2016

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2017

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Those last five minutes offer the most subtly resonant moment of catharsis ever put on screen. A lifetime of longing and internal anguish overcome by a single gesture of outward vulnerability. The serene magnitude of a man liberating that little boy he has always been and finally accepting himself for who he is. No matter what Chiron's and Kevin's futures entail, I keep coming back to the refrain from Frank Ocean's "Godspeed:"

  This love will keep us through blinding of the eyes
  Silence in the ears, darkness of the mind

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  That Obscure Object of Desire 1977

  ★★ Watched 11 Jul 2018 3

  "Mateo, you don't understand women."

  ...neither did 77 year old Luis Buñuel.