Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Red Shoes 1948

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Apr 2024

  Rewatched again at the Ritz, even better with an audience… will never stop loving this film

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  Thriller 40 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2024

  Greatest album of all time no debating 🙅🏻‍♀️

Popular reviews

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  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

  ★★ Watched 18 Oct 2021

  Thought this one was super average. The pacing between the first and second act was weird, fast to really slow. But the overall pacing of the whole film felt slow, quite a bit could have been cut. 

  Thought the lead and awkwafina were not that great, but the sister did a pretty good job considering this was her first film. Ben Kingsley is great as always but felt out of place in this film. 

  The writing felt lazy too. Especially…

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2020

  Wow. Just wow. 

  Portrait of a Lady on Fire, directed by Céline Sciamma is truly a modern masterpiece. Set in France during the late 18th century, Marianne is a painter commissioned to paint a portrait of Héloïse, the daughter of a wealthy countess, to be gifted to her future husband. However, Héloïse fears her fate and refuses to have her portrait be done, leaving Marianne having to base the painting off the minimal interactions she can get with her. The…

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