Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Le Havre 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2023

  Kaurismaki's deadpan approach makes this very emotional story not feel overly sentimental in a displeasing way. Lovely film.

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  Mad Max 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Dec 2023

  George wild for coming out the gate with a film like this.

Popular reviews

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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Jun 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Asteroid City is probably the most emotional Wes Anderson movie has made me since The Darjeeling Limited. Anderson's love for playwrights, scientists, actors, photographers, and all the people who move the world in one way or another shines through this picture. The existential angst experienced by a family that has just lost their mother juxtaposed with the sighting of an extraterrestial being after which the entire city is quarantined by the military for a week; an event that provides enough…

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  Certain Women 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Nov 2023

  All her films are quietly heartbraking but damn that final scene with Gladstone and Stewart was painfully sad. Beautiful movie and after watching four Kelly Reichardt features she still hasn't missed.

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