Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Singin' in the Rain 1952

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Oct 2023

  Haven’t you heard? She’s irresistible. She told me so herself.

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Oct 2023

  I mean what is not to like?

  This movie would have taken over my life if it came out when I was a kid.

Popular reviews

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  Silence 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Oct 2022 5

  Thoughts and (unanswered) questions on my mind after watching this movie:

  What’s more important in Christ’s eyes; growing his Church or easing the suffering of its members? How should we act when these two are in conflict? Are they one and the same? 

  Logically, In the life of a devout Catholic, death and specifically martyrdom is a good thing.  Why then is it so difficult to accept? Does that difficulty make it any less true? What is faith and do…

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  Padre Pio 2022

  ★★★ Watched 24 Sep 2023

  I think I get what they went for here with the dual storylines, but ultimately this played for me as two separate movies:

  1. A pretty boring period piece on class struggles in post-WWI Italy
  2. A very interesting character study on St. Pio

  I’m left wanting so much more because of how good the Pio portions were.  Frustrated because of how much time they devoted to the other characters, when we could have had a full runtime of gripping…

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