Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Athena 2022

  ★★★ Watched 03 Nov 2023

  I wanted to like this because of the subject and all of the exploding cops but the dialogue was some of the worst I’ve ever seen. Genuinely bad.

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  Dark Waters 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Aug 2023

  The acting in this is worse than I remembered.

Popular reviews

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  Grass Is Greener 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Apr 2019

  Very good documentary, I liked that it started off light hearted on the more fun aspects of cannabis culture and then spent the second half focusing on the drug war and the lives it has ruined.

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  The Painted Bird 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2020

  I read this book when I was 15 or so and remember my thought upon finishing it was “This will never be a movie”. Now 10+ years later, they’ve made probably the best possible film adaptation of it I can imagine ever being made. Some of the really really extreme parts were left out but it’s still really gruesome and contains a handful of scenes I’m surprised they were allowed to do. Kosiński would be 87 today had he not…