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Favorite films

  • First Reformed
  • Seconds
  • The Third Man
  • Born on the Fourth of July

All
  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout

    ★★★★½

  • The Final Destination

    ★½

  • Clown in a Cornfield

    ★★

  • Final Destination 3

    ★★½

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout

2018

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

My fav. I think the series has stepped down from this height because McQuarrie left everything on the field here. There’s Rififi and The Third Man and Ronin and everything else he wanted to use.

Cruise backs off some of the more overt Buster Keaton humor here, instead we get the reaction shots of everyone else to his crazy. It makes the other characters more real and adds to the dynamic. Both Cavill and Ferguson are crushing it every time…

The Final Destination

2009

★½ Rewatched

Hiring the Birdemic/Sharknado effects team was a real mistake. Straight to video quality at best. I hate this movie so much.

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Ida

2013

★★★★★ Watched

March Around the World #2 - Poland

I only cried once. I consider that a triumph. I had avoided this film at the time under the belief that there was nothing new to be learned or seen on this topic. How wrong I was. This is a perfect film. While never explicitly referencing any of the horrors piled upon the Polish people through the war and post-war years, it beautifully covers both that loss and the very human aftermath. The…

Mark, Mary + Some Other People

2021

★½ 1

Tired of films trying to understand ethical non-monogamy but then completely misunderstanding and misrepresenting.

Occasionally funny, but I just was not on the wavelength of this film and have real problems with the sexual politics here.

Not sure why every romcom involves couples being terrible to one another.