Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★★ Watched 08 Sep 2020

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  Long Shot 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2020

  Probably the most surprisingly enjoyable mainstream romcom since The Intern.

Popular reviews

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Nov 2012

  Still just as sumptuous, beguiling, and utterly overwhelming after several viewings as it was the very first time. A uniquely immersive movie. The Club Silencio sequence is truly one of the great cinematic sequences of the 2000s.

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  Zero Dark Thirty 2012

  ★★½ Watched 04 Feb 2013 18

  I didn't particularly like this film, which took me by surprise, based on the glowing reviews on this site and others.

  It was competently made and mildly interesting but I found it completely lacking in well-drawn, engaging or even remotely interesting characters. They were all surface, mere cyphers, and that included Jessica Chastain's 'Maya'.

  I found the apathetic coolness of the politics of the film troubling. Yes, I understand Bigelow intended to merely show what happened, without judgement, but when…

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