Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Worst Person in the World 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Feb 2022

  There’s a level of patience and delicacy on display here that is so rare - allowing Renate Reinsve’s incredible portrayal to be flawed, to struggle and yet feel so complex and human. Also adored the surrealistic sequences - I can already hear the studio note if you tried that in Hollywood "these feel out of place, are you sure you need them?" - there's a messiness to the structure and choices that feel like life, and I appreciated so much that Joachim Trier did not sand down those edges. Remarkable filmmaking.

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  Nomadland 2020

  ★★★★★ Added

  I love big cinematic epics - but sometimes film profoundly reminds us of the power of looking into our mortality, and what we do with our short time on Earth with heart, humor, and empathy. Nomadland is one of those films and a companion for me to a film I love, After Life. Both films deal with regret and people struggling with the choices they’ve made, and both come to a similar conclusion about what actually matters.

  Chloé Zhao and…

Popular reviews

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  The Shape of Water 2017

  ★★★★★ Added

  A mesmerizing experience, celebrating a story about loving someone for who they are, for their "imperfections" as it were, the things that make them unique and special. Del Toro is an absolute master of tone, balancing sentimentality without melodrama, dark humor, joy, darkness and violence, tension, and ultimately love like no one else.

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  Wolfwalkers 2020

  ★★★★★ Added

  Absolutely stunning - called to mind other favorites like Princess Mononoke and Legend of Korra - the hand drawn animation is like nothing I've ever seen, watercolors and afterimages floating in a non-realistic way that never stops being mesmerizing, from the rigid lines of the fire to the flowing shapes of the red hair and forest. The beauty of the gentle love story, of children learning about a difficult and dangerous world, of adults learning to open their eyes in…