Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Memoir of a Snail 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2025 2

  Glad I didn’t go with anyone to the cinema with me for this one, had me ugly crying my heart out in public. Gorgeously depressing and carthatic, if you’re not bawling from the sadness and joys of life this masterpiece lays out I don’t know how you survive each day without a heart.

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  My Neighbor Totoro 1988

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  Struggled to see the screen from the tears of joy this film pulled out of me in the first hour. If childhood whimsy is a film…..it’s this.

Popular reviews

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Jan 2024

  This was gorgeous. Start to finish, awe inspiring beauty and emotion in each and every frame. 
  But that’s not all, there is substance in spades as well. It’s one of the only films I’ve seen where I have felt comfortably confused in the fever dream I was witnessing. The stream of sub plots and winding passages felt distracting, disorienting but also immensely intentional as if I was inside the stream of consciousness of the artist at work.
  In addition, I…

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★ Watched 01 Jan 2024

  Now maybe I’m out of touch here but this, to me, was perhaps the most dull and predictable ‘thriller’ I’ve seen in a while. It’s been done to death and in far more interesting ways.
  The only ‘gripping’ thing it has going for it is the fact it has some odd moments here and there that seem to be thrown in for shock value more than actually contributing anything of value - like some kind of weird fanfic written by…

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