Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Last Breath 2025

  ★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Despite the poster and the billing, nobody's a lead here, and the weird thing is it doesn't even work as an ensemble; it's more like all the characters are second string supporting characters. Parkinson seems unable to direct a compelling performance out of anyone.

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  Spirit in the Blood 2024

  ★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  This German-Canadian co-production is something of a bait and switch since it's in reality not a supernatural horror and instead is a coming of age story about the real-life horrors of being a 15 year old girl who suspects she might be living in a supernatural horror, which is a clever concept but the story is packed with far too many ideas so none of them are explored satisfactorily. The two lead actresses did pretty well with what they had.

Popular reviews

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  The Toll 2020

  ½ Watched 28 Mar 2021

  First 20 minutes is thin and passable, later a lady drives up on a tractor and barfs out all of the film's "lore" in one go, and any interest I had in this dropped to zero. Possibly one of the worst written things I've watched.

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  Revenge 2017

  ★★ Watched 14 May 2018

  I mentally checked out when I realized I was watching a tension-free excuse to get implausible amounts of ropy, karo-syrup blood out of a bunch of non-characters in unimaginative ways during its run-time. Tipping point was specifically when a dude was digging glass out of his obviously rubber foot for what felt like five minutes. Sort of a cartoon, but not.

  Disappointing, because Fargeat does certain things well enough that I think she's a talented director. Maybe Raw set the bar so high that it's ruined me for French horror.