Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Fall of the House of Usher 2023

  ★★ Added

  The premise is fantastic, a cross of SUCCESSION with interwoven, modernized elements of Edgar Allen Poe stories and poems. The actual product is basically lowbrow trash.  Entertaining at least, solid to have in the background if you’re avoiding succumbing to the likes of Love is Blind

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  The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988

  ★★★½ Added

  I know I'm supposed to help you, but I can't. Instead of being your support I'm your weight. Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you. I can't bear this lightness, this freedom... I'm not strong enough.

  So much of this film is missing a certain tightness and sharpness of vision and editing, but it's ultimately a personal and romantic story about what it means to choose between the love that comes with commitment, security, responsibility and the love and personal freedoms of being unbound. As such a romance, it is sufficient that its wildly talented cast carries it. Binoche MVP.

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  ★★ Added 3

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

  …..That’s it? After all that time and all that investment, this is what Star Wars wants to be? A universe that demands reduction to a condescending highlight reel of the same dozen moments of its past? Its unifying metaphysical energy a hollow burden of birthright? That’s supposed to be enough?

  For context, I think TLJ’s heights are among the franchise’s most memorable, but I recognize that it was an uneven film and flawed sequel. I had a lot of fun…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Added

  “Just know, it won't be for you. It will be for them.”

  Staggering film.

  Christopher Nolan makes the "3hr World War II historical biopic" in a way that is distinctively his own and elevates it to a brutal look at the psychological and moral burdens of American exceptionalism and the price of being a great man or a man who imagines himself to be great. It has the energy of a thriller, the production and sound design of a blockbuster…

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