Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Easy A 2010

  ★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2023 1

  Emma Stone is too good for this world.

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  All Quiet on the Western Front 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Nov 2022 1

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

  The following is a review I submitted to the New York Times as part of their annual review contest for high schoolers. A lot of it is formatted odd because they had specific rules for formatting. I believed I lost their contest, as they never got back to me. However, I'm still proud of my review, so without further ado...

  War at its Most Pointless: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

  “We have so much to say, and we shall…

Popular reviews

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jun 2021 175

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

  All you’ll have to do is come up the stairs.

  What is a metaphor? My personal definition is that a metaphor is something simple and concrete that conveys something much more complicated and abstract. In film, metaphors are particularly strong, because they can be visually dynamic as well as narratively. Bong Joon-Ho is perhaps the human being with the deepest understanding of a metaphor. He knows how to make one ebb and flow, how to make you comfortable with a…

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  The Father 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2021 187

  You can find a much better review than mine right HERE.

  Brilliant, sincere, thoughtful, brutal; auteur filmmaker and playwright Florian Zeller writes and directs what is without a doubt the smartest, softest, saddest, and best film of 2020. He does so with a tour-de-force performance by veteran Anthony Hopkins and a more subtle performance by Olivia Colman. All three people deserve Oscars for this film, but I'll settle for some Letterboxd recognition. The thing The Father does that makes it…