Favorite films

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  Rasputin: The Mad Monk 1966

  ½ Added

  Not even Christopher Lee and Barbara Shelly can make this movie work.

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  A Bucket of Blood 1959

  ★ Added

  Strange, unlikable little movie.

Popular reviews

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  Dunkirk 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2017

  Powerful. Claustrophobic. Rallying.

  There are not enough superlatives to use when talking about this film. I'm sure a lot of people will key in on the treatment of water or the sound, the layering of time is the element that impressed me and elevated this from a standard post-Saving Private Ryan war movie into something gripping. By collapsing time and showing us the same scenes from differing viewpoints, Nolan gives us a glimpse of the evacuation at Dunkirk. The film is relentless. It comes in from all sides. It is powerful and full of dread.

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  Phantom Thread 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2018

  Do not let the trailers fool you, this is no dour period piece. Someone on the Dissolve! group called it a "funny, fucked up rom-com" and that might be the best description of this film, which focuses on the exertion of wills in a relationship. It's beautiful to look at and a treat to watch. PTA leaves no expression, no small movement unexamined and DDL is so crisp and precise that he is a marvel to watch. If this really is his last film, he's going out on top.

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