Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Whisper of the Heart 1995

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Nov 2024

  I love that movies can keep surprising me like this. I wanted more and the ending felt abrupt, but god, it's such a warm and cosy coming of age tale that grows with the character's creative discovery. Honestly, I think this could be a future five-star rating...

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  Kiki's Delivery Service 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Nov 2024

  Nursing a cold and another existential crisis, so I really needed this

Popular reviews

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  Emma. 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2020

  In her debut feature film Emma. (full-stop intended), director Autumn de Wilde examines some deeply romantic and sexual attractions while maintaining a U-rating. This new and gorgeously shot adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel feels ruder, raunchier, and more mature than other recent period pieces suitable for families (Little Women, The Personal History of David Copperfield), but de Wilde and screenwriter Eleanor Catton still entice with strong innuendo. One scene, heavily advertised, has the titular hero Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) biting…

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  The Essex Serpent 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 11 May 2022

  It’s a pleasure to see Tom Hiddleston outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the doomed conversations about The Next James Bond. Wedged inside the hit-or-miss comic book factory, you occasionally forget he’s a strong, Shakesperean marvel on his own.

  And yet, his introduction in Anna Symon's new period drama The Essex Serpent – adapted from Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel – is perhaps as theatrical as the two franchises mentioned above. In a display of rustic masculinity, he wrestles a…