Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Four Murders Are Enough, Darling 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Fantagraphics needs to start translating and publishing Kaja Saudek's work in North America. I need it, you need it, the world needs it.

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  Hard Labour 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Tins of jellied chicken.

Popular reviews

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  Queen Margot 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Jul 2019

  Every time you call a movie "operatic" and it's not this movie, you are wrong.

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  Freud: The Secret Passion 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2015

  A surprisingly thunderous movie. Charles Kaufman's screenplay isn't a biopic at all, more a condensation of the thinker's ideas into a chamber drama of heavy-handed significance. All of his theories are crammed into one patient, Cecily Koertner. Susannah York's performance is a lot more restrained than, say, Keira Knightley's in A Dangerous Method or Tippi Hedren's in Marnie. Montgomery Clift is equally modest, though that doesn't necessarily mean he's bad. It's more than the film's performances are subservient to its…