Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Dec 2023

  The human narrative is so compelling I almost forgot it was in a Godzilla movie at times, but then Godzilla would show up in some of the most compelling monster sequences ever filmed. It was so good seeing Godzilla as an unequivocal force of death and destruction again.

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  Genie 2023

  ★½ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  Has there ever been a funnier person stuck in a worse string of lifeless films? The movie is fine in a bland, tasteless Hallmark Christmas kind of way, but McCarthy is so charming and likable she almost makes the whole thing enjoyable. Almost.

Popular reviews

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  Psycho 1998

  ★★½ Rewatched 06 Sep 2023 2

  This film is art.
  I don't mean that this is a finely crafted piece of cinema that represents the peak of the form at the time. I mean that Gus Van Sant's 1998 (almost) shot-for-shot remake of PSYCHO is an art project. It is not a commercial film. To quote one of the most commercial movies often called art, "It belongs in a museum."
  The artifice is on full display in Van Sant's version. The film itself is like one…

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  Scream VI 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2023

  The new setting and lack of a few major legacy characters made this seem fresh and revitalized, all while including countless homages to to SCREAM 2. Love the twins, they really made me invested even more so than the Carpenter sisters.