Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  Come for the satire. Stay for the genuinely moving family drama.

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Nov 2023

  Like a warm, inviting hug. Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph are all terrific.

Popular reviews

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  Rat Race 2001

  ★★★★ Rewatched 31 May 2020

  So many iconic moments:

  YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT A SQUIRREL.
  Barbie museum
  Nazi speech
  Amy Smart's helicopter rage
  Gloria Allred???
  Prairie dogging
  Busload of Lucys
  Monster truck of death
  Smash Mouth

  Why isn't Rat Race revered more? The ensemble cast is perfect (Whoopi Goldberg and Lanei Chapman are my favorite contestants), and I love how far Jerry Zucker is willing to go for a single joke, not in terms of offensiveness but big set pieces (re: Monster truck of death,…

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  WandaVision 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2021

  For 7 of its 9-episode season, WandaVision is easily the most creative and narratively exciting thing Marvel has done since Black Panther. The way the show explores grief in a sitcom backdrop is ingenious and compelling to me, and for the first time, we finally get a good sense of Wanda and Vision's relationship, something that was severely lacking from the MCU movies. It's unfortunate, then, that the last two episodes veer into more pedestrian and predictable territory, climaxing in…