Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Avatar 2009

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Sep 2022

  I love being in the hands of a director who actually knows what they're doing with $200 million

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  Star Wars 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Jul 2022

  Decades of Star Wars fans have done their best to ruin this for me but I was still in heaven even seeing a bastardized version in the theater.

Popular reviews

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Jan 2013 1

  Watched 2001 for HAL's birthday, early in the evening. Slightly drowsy, so I occasionally dosed off.
  Watching it for the third time I noticed a few things more prominently than before.
  1. The colors are wonderfully striking.
  2. HAL displays far more emotion early on than I had previously noticed.
  3. The stargate sequence and the location following it both begin and end through the Monolith.

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  Kubo and the Two Strings 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Aug 2016

  Me at the beginning: Talk about false advertising, Kubo's got three strings on that thing.
  Me by the end, through my tears: Oh...