Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Catherine Called Birdy 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2024

  Not the best coming-of-age entry for me, but it gets its feminist message across humorously.

  You can never go wrong with Andrew Scott, as always.

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  God's Own Country 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2021

  A happy ending. That is as rare as what John found in and with Gheorghe.

  I liked the 'repetition' of their key insults (terms of endearment, rather) at the start of their romance and up to the their final meeting. This device was executed beautifully; a de facto acknowledgement of what they wholly are.

Popular reviews

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  Spirited Away 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Oct 2020

  I really liked the contrasts: simple versus complex; top floor versus basement floor. Most of all, from fear, Chihiro found and reveled in its strongest contrast, love.