Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Jan 2025

  Fun in places with Saldana particularly strong. Good to see something going a bit outside of the standard realistic narrative and jived with the songs. Touched on some issues, maybe not overly sensitively but feel for me they worked.
  My main issue as someone into the big fantastical music and choreographed elements, was hoping for a bigger showpiece for the final action scene. But was just done a bit too standard.

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  Kes 1969

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jun 2024

  Iconic, classic with a strong of great character performances. Ken Loach in his element among the working class childrenz and one particular patience and resilience.

Popular reviews

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  Office Romance 1977

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2021

  A Soviet film that felt like a mix of The Apartment and Bringing Up Baby.

  
  Stunning film. Beautiful romance. Great comedy. Wonderful side characters. And added bonus of excellent documentary style footage of life in 70s Moscow.

  Stunning.

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2021

  Firstly try Mulholland Drive. If that don't suit your palette then this almost certainly won't.
  An emotional rather than a narrative journey filmed on digital video camera and underlined by a powerful performance from the wonderful Laura Dern.
  A film you have to feel rather than think about.