Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Factory Mask 2002

  ★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2021 2

  The only comment on the YouTube video for this was “David loves factories so much!” with a whole bunch of heart emojis. Thought that was pretty sweet.

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  Monsieur Verdoux 1947

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 03 May 2021

  In Chaplin’s early classics, his character is a foolish but kind tramp who works desperately to gain wealth and/or love, always eventually gaining one or both but never neither. Here, that character is not reversed but essentially ripped inside out. Now he’s an intelligent but cruel gentleman who works desperately to gain wealth by exploiting an idea others have of love that he doesn’t share. The Great Dictator, arguably his most grandly idealistic work by the end, where the tramp…

Recent reviews

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  A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965

  ★★★★ Rewatched 25 Nov 2023 3

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

  All I want is what’s coming to me. All I want is my fair share.

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  The Big Lebowski 1998

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Nov 2023

  A dense political text. Contains several Great performances, one of the best soundtracks of all time, and a truly moving ending. I think there’s never been a screenwriter better than the Coens, but then again there’s two of them, so maybe they have an unfair advantage.

Popular reviews

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  Blonde 2022

  ★½ Watched 28 Sep 2022

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

  “I think that Blonde will be one of the ten best movies ever made. That’s why I want to do it” 
  - Andrew Dominik

  I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with a biopic disrespecting its subject or a film being cruel to its characters but I also think that goes both ways and there’s nothing wrong with me saying Andrew Dominik is a hack and probably an idiot. The whole thing is as obvious, silly, poorly-written, stupid, and devoid…

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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Nov 2023

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

  Moment-to-moment reasonably entertaining and at times pretty fun or interesting or suspenseful (particularly in Chapters One and Four), but I don’t exactly get the point of Fincher’s rigorous technical precision if this is the quality of middle brow, cliched script he’s going to choose. Kind of a bad cast too besides Fassbender and Tilda? Or at least an okay cast saddled with unconvincing dialogue. Good fight scene, liked the end and final needle drop. Should’ve had more narration (not sarcasm).