Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Aug 2023

  Somehow, my brothers and I were the only ones who understood and laughed at every reference in an otherwise crowded but quiet theatre. (2001, Proust, BBC Pride & Prejudice; we feasted) Wildly original, witty and weird; spectacularly cast. I'm gonna see it twice more.

  Also: Barbie might have the best last line of a movie since The Apartment?

  Well, it's certainly up there, for me.

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  Niagara 1953

  ★★★½ Rewatched 18 Aug 2023

  Exquisite use of the Marilyn Monroe Persona® for evil.

Popular reviews

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  Lover Come Back 1961

  ★★★½ Rewatched 27 Apr 2021

  Doris Day's reaction when her gay assistant tells her he has a lilac kitchen floor should have gotten her a second Oscar nom.

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  King Solomon's Mines 1950

  ★★★★ Added

  Deborah Kerr cuts off all her hair and her ludicrous '50s perm withstands both African jungle and desert.

  We have no choice but to stan.

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