Ed Rees

Ed Rees

Favorite films

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Snowpiercer
  • Her
  • The Intouchables

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  • Kong: Skull Island

    ★★★

  • The Lives of Others

    ★★★★

  • Moonrise Kingdom

    ★★★½

  • Doctor Strange

    ★★★

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  • Kong: Skull Island

    Kong: Skull Island

    ★★★

    Who cares about character development if there's a massive ape.

    Ok this film is a silly film. If you go into it expecting anything other than an implausible action movie I feel like you'll be disappointed. If you go in expecting this, great.

    What this film is good at, it is very good at. By that I mean massive action sequences featuring a gigantic gorilla. I saw that this film was a 12a and was scared that the fight scenes…

  • The Lives of Others

    The Lives of Others

    ★★★★

    A slow and beautiful film.

    For any film goer who doesn't mind sitting through long scenes of dialogue this is a beautiful film that does not shy away from taking its time to convey its message.

    I watched this entire film believing it to be a true story. After finding out that this was not the case my view of it has changed. What really strikes me now, which I had taken for granted before, is the attention to the…

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  • Rope

    Rope

    ★★★★½

    Contains very minor spoilers:

    I found this film intensely disturbing to watch in an incredible way. This is in fact the first Hitchcock film that I have watched from start to end in one sitting and I have to say it has very much lived up to my expectations.

    A feature I enjoyed about this film was the way in which it didn't shy away from the fact that it was a play adaptation. The play from which this film…