Favorite films

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  Sing Sing 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Beautiful. Warm and kind and healing. A story about how that’s what art does. One of my favorites of this year’s awards crop. Don’t miss this one.

  “Sometimes it’s all just a little too much on the heart.”

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  I'm Still Here 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  This was fantastic. I knew nothing of Brazil’s political history, but felt fully immersed in the time and place (Rio de Janeiro in the ‘70s) and enveloped in the warmth of this tight-knit family. It perfectly illustrates the before and after - of a terrible event that draws a hard line through your existence and suddenly the world shifts, and will never shift back.

  A warning tale for those in places where democracy is failing, about the moment where it…

Popular reviews

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  True Crime 1995

  ★½ Watched 06 Jun 2021

  They really slapped some glasses and a messy ponytail on teenage Alicia Silverstone and made her call herself ugly TWICE

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  The Witness for the Prosecution 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2020

  Andrea Riseborough’s big courtroom meltdown screaming, “You men, you FUCKING men!” ...I felt that