Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  All About My Mother 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Women are amazing and this film captures that perfectly

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  The Sacrifice 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Mar 2025

  “It feels now as if I’ve awakened from some kind of dream after some other kind of life. For some reason, I always offered resistance. I fought against something. I defended myself, just as though I’d had someone else inside me saying: don’t give in to anything… don’t go along with… anything… or you will die”

  Had to watch this twice to really take it in. What a journey. It has been a while since a film had made me question everything - the desire to reshape everything has returned. Creation is a gift. What a gift it was to watch this

Popular reviews

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★ Watched 24 Jan 2025 1

  I understand the sentiment but this was so poorly written and directed. Dialogue was so choppy and awkward. We left the characters exactly how we met them, no real progression in tone or plot. If this was a character study we didn’t get the opportunity to delve into either one with any real depth. My expectation were so high, I feel gaslit. I retire from contemporary film

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  Shalaby 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Jan 2023

  Saw this with my mum. Her first Arabic language cinema experience in this country. Mine too. I laughed. I cried. Everything it needed to be

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