Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Scary of Sixty-First 2021

  ★★ Watched 01 Feb 2024

  Great premise, awful execution.
  Spunky attitude and hip looks do not a film director make.
  Too bad, what a movie this could have been in the right hands, say an Ari Aster, a Ducournau or even a Polanski.
  But no...
  Textbook example of a group of "actors" left to their own devices, no focus, no direction, inept line delivery, too many easy shortcuts (In one scene "The girl" gets one measly slap and passes out, in the next, she gets…

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  Carriers 2009

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Apr 2020

  Sleeper in many ways, this contagion movie may finally reach out to its intended public during the 2020 Pandemic. I hope it does, seeing how it verges on reality in many ways.

Popular reviews

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  The Last Adventure 1967

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Nov 2018

  A breath of fresh air of a film, wild and free, in its subject matter and in its form. The whole movie rests solidly on the shoulders of its two very charismatic leads, Ventura and Delon, add in the mix the beautiful Joanna Shimkus and you have a winner. Filled with adventure, romance, brotherhood and fuelled by the characters dreams and ambitions. This one will stay with me for a while.

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  Polisse 2011

  ★★½ Watched 16 May 2016

  I found this movie manipulative and it mostly annoyed me from beginning to end.