Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Fire Inside 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  'A solid and well-told contribution to the boxing genre; a story which is equal parts inspiring and enraging.' Full review at THN: thehollywoodnews.com/2025/02/06/the-fire-inside-review-dir-rachel-morrison-2025/

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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  'The empathy in the storytelling and in the performances makes Hard Truths, a very captivating, no-frills drama, that offers little answers and even less resolution to those titular truths, yet is rewarding all the same.' Full review at THN: www.thehollywoodnews.com/2025/01/29/hard-truths-review/

Recent reviews

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  In the Lost Lands 2025

  ★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  I was often quite taken with how certain compositions and framings of this looked, managing to make its CG environments look more impressive and atmospheric than some movies that have four times its budget. But aside from its visuals, there's very little to cling onto here, with a script that fundamentally fails at establishing much sense of lore or genuine intrigue in the bland characters and dull plot that wants to be a Mad Max with demons and beasts but doesn't know how to make that seemingly slam-dunk concept function at a basic storytelling level.

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  Here 2024

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I respect the swing of this thing, which can be quite effective in terms of narratively and visually weaving across time to give it strong thematic grounding. But it can also really clunk in some transitions, and Hanks and Wright just don’t ever really convince thanks to the de-aging which fails pretty much whenever it’s implemented. The whole look of the thing also has a distancing effect after a while, as the artifice of it all can be distractingly obvious and…

Popular reviews

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  Reminiscence 2021

  ★★½ Watched 20 Aug 2021

  What a deeply silly movie. It is overwritten in nearly every aspect, from its near future dystopia world-building to its hammy neo-noir voiceover. It drowns its own ideas in its flooded city landscapes, occasionally offering some intriguing images in a world that see-saws from fascinating to befuddling. It wants to be a Philip K. Dick joint, and I admire it for doing something original and a bit strange, but too many components simply don’t fit together. Still, I must admit,…

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  Bohemian Rhapsody 2018

  ★½ Watched 25 Oct 2018 2

  Formulaic, completely surface-level, smug and generic, all words I would never use to describe the actual band Queen or their front-man Freddie Mercury. Rami Malek is the only one trying for anything that feels authentic, but the film around him is having none of it, simply content in broadly expressing the complex nature of the music and of Mercury himself. If it were any other band or man, this would be a two-star biopic, but the fact that it is Queen, it feels all the more tragic and reeks of missed opportunity. And that just breaks my heart. But hey, at least the music is great.