Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Incident 2023

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Quietly, profoundly enraging.

  Watch for free:
  www.shortoftheweek.com/2025/02/28/incident/

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  A Quiet Place: Day One 2024

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  This was intense and painful and tonally just incredibly, consistently the most accurate depiction of what grief feels like that even though my tv speaker apparently sucks and I could barely hear any of the dialogue (all the screaming and alien squealing and city-smashing action was loud AF, tho, I really gotta find some more settings) - I was *still* crying at the end.

  I would probably watch it again to catch all the subtleties I missed, but I’m not sure I can go through that journey more than once.

Popular reviews

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  My Old Ass 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Jun 2024

  Before this started, I was of the opinion that I might not find it very funny. IDK why. When it started, I decided that I might, in fact, find it very funny but I would probably continue to hate the title. By the end of the film, I realised this was a perfect film and nothing, absolutely nothing, should ever be altered about any aspect of this film. 

  If they’d been making films like this when I was 18, maybe my entire life would’ve been different.

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  Intimacy 2001

  Watched 18 Feb 2024

  You know, I actually think I get it. 

  I had just long enough to spot Intimacy on a streamer and think, ‘surely it’s not THAT Intimacy’ before the first very unsimulated sex scene started. Nothing like being reminded of how the real thing looks to make you realise how very manipulated filmic sex scenes usually are — with their perfect lighting and perfect bodies and always, always with their perfectly matched emotions. Who was it that said that the promise…