Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Autumn Sonata 1978

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Happy Mother's Day!

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  Oslo, August 31st 2011

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Initially I gave this 3 and a half because of how bleak it is, but on reflection I realised how it has to be - and why that makes it so moving as well as uncompromising a depiction of depression.

  Spoilers:
  What this film shows is not one young man's struggle, but also how a lack of empathy from friends and loved ones can be devastating.

  Thomas - seemingly Anders' best friend - is not only insensitive towards his friend's…

Popular reviews

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  Leaving Las Vegas 1995

  ★★★ Watched 16 May 2024

  Occasionally darkly hilarious, mostly depressing, sometimes kinda hot in a sleazy, porny way, and a few times quite vile in what it subjects Elizabeth Shue to. The hypnotic/Lynchian stuff works for me, Cage is amazing of course, but the sexual politics are really very bad and it has a bleak view of humanity that isn't rewarding in anyway

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  I have never seen a film nose dive so hard. The first half of this movie is beautiful, poetic, moving - understated! The second half descends into the most ridiculous melodrama with some baffling moments and one incredibly misjudged decision. What the fuck? What a waste of 70mm