Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Stop Making Sense 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Sep 2023

  This 2023 restoration in IMAX is a joyous, momentous experience.

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  Joyland 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Sep 2023

  Honest, tender, and totally involving. Sexual fluidity may never have been as properly captured on the big screen as it is here. So powerful in its tragedy --and yet so wonderful in its innocent sweetness.

Popular reviews

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  Call Me by Your Name 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2018 8

  Bravo! Pure, passionate, cinematic perfection. Luca Guadagnino, an existential romantic on par with Bertolucci and Sorrentino, has done it again! ❤️

  
  "Call Me By Your Name" is something to behold. It affected me deeply. There's a rawness to it, and yet a profound lyricism. There's beauty in its introspective view of longing and observant search for affection, and still a ripe carnality to its depiction of the loss of sexual innocence. Multiple times throughout this beautiful affair, the movie took…

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  Greta 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2019 2

  Nobody flips a table like Isabelle Huppert!

  The premise and general plot machinations of “Greta” are well-navigated terrain. Think, “Fatal Attraction”, “Single White Female”, and particularly “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” (perhaps with a dash too, of Egoyan’s “Chloe” and writer/director Neil Jordan’s own too-harshly criticized “In Dreams” and “The Brave One”) and I think you get the idea. The result is a three-star script with four-star execution. You get a bravura camp performance by Isabelle Huppert, sexy vulnerability…