Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Spent the entire film thinking the actress playing Zoe looked like Naomi Harris, only for it to be Naomi Harris. I’m stupid.

  Also why was Pierce Brosnan eating a live fish? What was that?

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Absolutely sensational storytelling. 

  What Stephen Graham does in the final 5 minutes is so devastating. I’ve been uncontrollably sobbing for the past 10 minutes.

Popular reviews

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  Vigil 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Sep 2021

  Rose Leslie and Suranne Jones playing a couple has added years to my life.

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  National Theatre Live: Prima Facie 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 May 2022

  “I don’t know what to cling to, how to stand up. How to walk out of the courtroom. How to leave the building? All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change.”

  I am well aware that this is not a film, but I’m not going to turn down the opportunity to express how incredible Jodie Comer is.

  What I witnessed today is quite possibly the greatest theatre performance I have ever seen. And to think…