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Film Reviews
The five-star shelf — everything I've given full marks.
| Seen | Film | Rating | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 AUG 26 | Inglourious Basterds 2009 | Perfect movie. So much fun seeing it in a theater, with a crowd, introducing it to a friend who'd never seen… | |
| 10 AUG 26 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018 | Anytime I'm watching any other movie I think "man, I could be watching into the spider verse" Has any other… | |
| 26 JUL 26 | The Big Lebowski 1998 | Yep greatest script of all time. Absolutely flawless. Love introducing people to this movie | |
| 20 JUL 26 | The Odyssey 2026 | Second viewing one day after the first. At a loss for words at just how complete and certain Christopher… | |
| 05 JUL 26 | Citizen Kane 1941 | Unbelievable. So cool seeing it with a packed crowd at AMC Universal in LA. The jokes landed. | |
| 28 JUN 26 | Blow Out 1981 | Some of the other characters acting is annoying I can admit it. | |
| 25 MAY 26 | Malcolm X 1992 | A masterwork. Felt like classic Hollywood filmmaking dialed up to 11 - taken to the highest heights it can… | |
| 19 APR 26 | Marty Supreme 2025 | American classic | |
| 29 MAR 26 | Sinners 2025 | The ideas in the script are so solid - and how could anyone hate a movie with music as a core theme | |
| 24 MAR 26 | Dune: Part Two 2024 | A perfect movie. One where every single thing that appears on screen seems not only purposeful, but done in… | |
| 29 JAN 26 | Ratatouille 2007 | Genuinely may be one of the greatest movies ever made. | |
| 10 JAN 26 | Marty Supreme 2025 | YES!!! MASTERPIECE!! ELECTRIC!! such a good feeling when you're looking forward to a movie for so long… | |
| 21 DEC 25 | West Side Story 2021 | A masterpiece. Musicals are movie magic - the stuff of dreams. Crazy that we have a Spielberg west side story | |
| 21 DEC 25 | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 2021 | <i>"I'm not brave. I just wasn't in the mood to be a disappointment to… | |
| 10 DEC 25 | Arrival 2016 | So unbelievably well realized. A director with a vision and an idea perfectly executed. | |
| 06 DEC 25 | Tampopo 1985 | Greatest movie ever made. The movie that all other movies are based on. | |
| 18 OCT 25 | Little Women 2019 | A perfect, perfect miracle of a movie. A masterpiece. | |
| 11 SEP 25 | Moonrise Kingdom 2012 | I've always loved it but it's even more refreshing coming back to earlier wes Anderson before he… | |
| 05 AUG 25 | Normal People 2020 | I'm a wreck right now and I'll be thinking about this for years | |
| 03 AUG 25 | The Pianist 2002 | A perfect, devastating, heavy heavy movie. | |
| 01 AUG 25 | The Sound of Music 1965 | Went on the official sound of music tour in Salzburg Austria so naturally had to rewatch one of my all time… | |
| 01 AUG 25 | The Worst Person in the World 2021 | Gets better with every rewatch. Is it weird to consider this a comfort film? | |
| 23 JUL 25 | The Dark Knight 2008 | Saw at an outdoor screening in Old Yaffo overlooking the TEL Aviv skyline Gets better everytime | |
| 09 JUL 25 | Parasite 2019 | Love introducing people to international cinema with this one. | |
| 04 JUL 25 | The Princess Bride 1987 | Sort of the platonic ideal of a fairy tale story no? | |
| 04 JUL 25 | Incendies 2010 | I watched this about a week and a half ago and I haven't stopped thinking about it. | |
| 03 JUL 25 | Michael Clayton 2007 | A perfect screenplay. Perfectly directed. Incredibly acted - it all felt so real and lived in. | |
| 25 JUN 25 | Babylon 2022 | At some point I’ll have to write a real, long review about this masterpiece. | |
| 23 JUN 25 | All That Jazz 1979 | HOLY SHIT I'm still buzzing right now. | |
| 16 JUN 25 | High and Low 1963 | Kurosawa is the absolute master. Character blocking and camera movements/framing really stood out here. | |
| 16 JUN 25 | The Truman Show 1998 | Perfectly realized - nothing is out of place and everything is essential to the story. | |
| 12 JUN 25 | GoodFellas 1990 | Unbelievably well realized. There is no element of this that isn’t a perfect fit. | |
| 20 APR 25 | There Will Be Blood 2007 | will there ever be another actor like DDL. Masterpiece | |
| 08 APR 25 | Past Lives 2023 | I'll be rewatching this for decades | |
| 31 MAR 25 | Good Will Hunting 1997 | A timeless, perfect movie. Matt Damon should have also won best actor | |
| 20 MAR 25 | Memories of Murder 2003 | Stone-cold masterpiece. Make more movies like this Bong! | |
| 08 MAR 25 | The Big Lebowski 1998 | Greatest script ever? This movie feels like a bolt of lightning | |
| 04 MAR 25 | Django Unchained 2012 | So cool | |
| 15 FEB 25 | When Harry Met Sally... 1989 | So much space in my heart reserved for this movie. Everything about it. The jazz music. | |
| 09 FEB 25 | Tampopo 1985 | <i>Everyone has their own ladder. Some do their best to climb to the top, while others don't even… | |
| 29 JAN 25 | Roma 2018 | Beautiful. Tender. Patient. An absolute masterpiece from Cuaron. The long takes (e.g. | |
| 28 JAN 25 | Cold War 2018 | Powerful powerful stuff. Loved every minute of this Sometimes, with the framing, it felt like a Wes Anderson… | |
| 16 JAN 25 | Top Gun: Maverick 2022 | What the hell was I on giving this a 3 1/2 the first time??? | |
| 12 JAN 25 | Phantom Thread 2017 | Daniel day Lewis absolutely consumes every role he’s in - hard to see him as himself and not the character… | |
| 08 JAN 25 | Interstellar 2014 | I’d been thinking about seeing this in a theater again since I saw the idea for an IMAX rerelease floated… | |
| 04 JAN 25 | Casablanca 1942 | Pure movie magic | |
| 31 DEC 24 | It's a Wonderful Life 1946 | A perfect movie in every sense of the word. The right way to end a year of movie watching | |
| 28 DEC 24 | Before Sunrise 1995 | I met the first girl I had a serious relationship with while on a trip to Vienna. | |
| 12 DEC 24 | Little Women 2019 | Amazing. Just absolutely amazing. All movies should be more like this movie. | |
| 02 DEC 24 | Magnolia 1999 | Masterpiece. The quickest 3+ hours I've ever experienced; PTA made this movie MOVE The pacing is just… |