Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cléo from 5 to 7 1962

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  90 minutes is the perfect length for a film

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  Girls Just Want to Have Fun 1985

  ★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I could not care less for Dance Tv... it's no Corny Collins show, or dare I say it, Camp Rock. A reminder that not all 80s movies had charisma! I did enjoy the Nun doing a pomelhorse routine though.

Popular reviews

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  Grand Tour 2024

  ★★ Watched 11 Aug 2024 2

  Dump him Molly.

  In all seriousness, this movie had a great description in the film festival brochure but I felt every minute of it (not a compliment). I read a review that it parodies 30s/40s travel films, and while I am not familiar with that genre, it felt like there just wasn't a purpose.

  There were some great ideas (the puppet show vingettes, changing languages, mixing in documentary footage with the period drama) but these elements just hung there. Juxtaposition…

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  We Were Dangerous 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2024

  A privilege to be at the NZ premiere of this movie. An energetic film about girlhood that circles some dark truths about Aotearoa. I was thinking about the the Abuse in State Care report that came out last week. This would be a great movie for English class in high school (compliment)

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