Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Sad but big hearted, aching and wide-eyed and fundamentally optimistic. Wonderful, wonderful.

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  National Theatre Live: Prima Facie 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  A brutal, visionary performance, anchored to a play that holds us in its horrific grasp from the first word.

  One complaint: the final visual is marred by the sound.

  For such a talky, verbose play, the literal end would have benefited from silence, a subtler, achingly sadder touch.

  No matter: still amazing, spellbinding. Jodie Comer does battle with the gods, and emerges bruised, broken, battered, but ultimately victorious.

Popular reviews

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  Midsommar 2019

  ★★★★★ Added

  Watched regular cut once, and directors cut once.

  An absolute maximalist masterpiece. One of my recent favorites. It's not a horror movie, and that's what I love so much about it.

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  Song to Song 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Jul 2017

  How do you review this? It’s not a film that can be reviewed easily; it defies easy and simple characterization. This is a film by Terrence Malick, a director noted for making features that are very difficult to understand and parse, even from scene to scene. His films are also noted for being absolutely beautiful and breathtaking to look at- see Days of Heaven- and he is fond of using voiceover as means of characterization and narrative advancement. By these…