Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Piano Teacher 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Another thoroughly miserable watch… Thanks Mr Haneke!

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  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  Makes Perfect Days look like an action movie.

  First hour is extremely painful as your brain learns how to watch, and then appreciate the unique experience provided.

  Would be lying if I said I enjoyed it (in fact it’s an unbelievably dull watch), but equally if I claimed I won’t be thinking about this film for a long while.

Popular reviews

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  Blitz 2024

  ★ Watched 12 Nov 2024 2

  its chewsday innit

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  Presence 2024

  ★★½ Watched 24 Jan 2025 1

  I really wanted to like this.

  Great concept which, for a few moments in the film, Soderberg captures the potential of.

  Sadly though it was too few. 

  The plot, dialogue, and performances are extremely poor for a filmmaker typically so good. Gen Z James Spader was unbearable most of the film, except when he went full Billy Loomis in a so bad it's good monologue towards the end.

  Can't help but feel a film shot this way required far more…