Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Trial 1962

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Watched this right after finishing the novel. I like how it captured the disorienting nightmarish quality. The paranoia, claustrophobic anxiety, surrealism, and humour. Anthony Perkins is great as Josef K. The film is also photographed so beautifully; it's visually striking and memorable.

Popular reviews

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  Double Indemnity 1944

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Aug 2024

  Instant favourite, a timeless classic. Beautifully atmospheric and layered. Sharp, gritty, and cynical. The way everything builds, unfolds, and crumbles is brilliant. The thrill of committing the perfect crime, intoxicating infatuation, greed, betrayal, and the sardonic joke of it all. The cinematography is stunning; love the rich, sharp-edged shadows and clever angles. I’m obsessed with the way light passes through the Venetian blinds in a smoky room. I also love Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson is fantastic); his wit, humour, ardor, and his relationship with Walter. 

  “Closer than that, Walter.”

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2024

  The what ifs and unfulfilled love, the pain of separation and lost possibilities. This film effortlessly captures the feeling of fleeting time, identity, and loss. The cinematography is beautiful and soothing. I liked the repetitive use of architecture, space, and light. Overall a very gentle, relatable film, in a way it feels like looking back at someone’s cherished memories.

  Also that crushing and longing pain she felt as she walked in the end, I know that pain and I felt…