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  • The Apartment
  • When Harry Met Sally...
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Apocalypse Now

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  • You've Got Mail

    ★★★½

  • Shrek 2

    ★★★

  • Meet Me in St. Louis

    ★★★★

  • Apocalypse Now

    ★★★★★

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  • You've Got Mail

    You've Got Mail 1998

    ★★★½ Rewatched 14 Dec 2024

    Despite almost cruel deference to Hanks’s rather cruel character (the worst he ever played?) and an even shakier supporting cast, I think it’s better than Sleepless. More valuable as a document of its era at least. The Internet should have stopped right here.

  • Shrek 2

    Shrek 2 2004

    ★★★ Rewatched 12 Dec 2024 1

    I think it’s a bit sad that this is one of Antonio Banderas’s only good US roles the whole millennium. 

    Wild O.J. joke.

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  • Poor Things

    Poor Things 2023

    ★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2024

    I don't know, ya'll. Even 1933's "Baby Face," with Barbara Stanwyck eagerly and unapologetically fucking her way to the top, still feels pretty bold for 2024. So I can't so easily dismiss a movie in which a woman uses sex work for both carnal pleasure and existential inquiry. And not many movies would even try to make an intellectual link between personal sexual freedom and broader philosophical and sociopolitical inspection.

    The problem is Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony Macnamara treat these…

  • Apocalypse Now

    Apocalypse Now 1979

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Dec 2024 2

    Duvall - “Charlie don’t surf!” 

    Friend - “This is real cinema!” 

    Me - *nods enthusiastically*

    *Fishburne massacres boat*

    Friend - “This is terrible! Why does there have to be war?!” 

    Gf - “I knew after the helicopter scene that this would be terrible.” 


    Love when The People react strongly to a personal top 10er. 


    (Blu ray)

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  • The 400 Blows
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Chinatown

Scoring 25 films

  • Aliens
  • Alien
  • Prometheus
  • Alien Resurrection
  • Alien³

Aliens Ranked 7 films

  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer
  • Past Lives
  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • The Zone of Interest

2023 Best Picture Nominees ranked 10 films

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