Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bottle Rocket 1996

  ★★★★ Rewatched 16 Apr 2023

  Narratively this thing is held together with tape, but it’s mostly wonderful, and it more than sets the Anderson template. Owen Wilson - funny guy. Luke Wilson - also funny.

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  The Darjeeling Limited 2007

  ★★★ Watched 13 Apr 2023

  Bottle Rocket remade in India with a dash if Eat, Pray,  Love. Hard to make a case that this isn’t WA’s weakest, the melancholy here is the most affected and charmless of any of his films. Not without its goofy pleasures though…

Popular reviews

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  My Neighbor Totoro 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Oct 2014 115

  No plot.
  No central character.
  No antagonist.
  No defined purpose for side characters.
  No threat.
  No three acts.
  No jokes.
  No punchlines.
  No explanations.
  No internal references.
  No catchphrases.
  No political polemical voice.
  No melodrama.
  No lessons.
  No beginning.
  No end.
  One of the best films ever made.

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  Ant-Man 2015

  ★★ Watched 06 Jul 2015 14

  Very tempted to click the "I've seen this film before" tab.