Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Like a Spiral 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Hypnotic and heartbreaking.

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  Death at a Funeral 2007

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  "Well, this is bloody grim, innit?"

Popular reviews

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  P.S. I Love You 2007

  ★ Watched 18 Mar 2014

  It's impressive that in a film with two Irish romantic leads, neither one of them is played by an Irishman.

  Also they both sing, and Harry Connick Jr. doesn't.

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  Mad Dog Time 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Jul 2011 2

  Ebert famously detests this, but I found a lot to dig my teeth into here. It's an absurd farce - part existential comedy, part Lynchian surrealism, part loving homage to/parody of the gangster genre - but it somehow works. Each actor pushes the envelope of acting tics in their performances, but it only adds to the delirious style on display here. There's a sense that these characters are only Beckett-esque cyphers, moving around artificial settings and gradually killing each other…