Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Genuinely not sure if I fell asleep or if that was just … it

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  I watched this only to complete seeing all best picture nominees before Oscar night. I was expecting 3 and a half hours of self indulgent (I mean .. an intermission?!) boring, men doing things, smug, filmness (no I didn’t like Oppenheimer).

  I was wrong.

  Beautifully shot, well drawn characters, a story with the obsession and urgency of There Will Be Blood, the family dynamics of a Tennessee Williams play. At the heart of it is László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor…

Popular reviews

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  Orion and the Dark 2024

  ★★ Watched 17 Feb 2024

  Most annoying child character award goes toooooooo! I couldn’t wait until it ended

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Feb 2024

  This is just a really good film, I loved it. It’s funny (most laughs I’ve heard in a cinema for ages), dry, has great characters, performances, writing and was just one of those rare experiences I can forget I’m watching a film and I’m just in it.

  Go see.