Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Definitely more Okja and Snowpiercer than Parasite and that’s cool with me. Love seeing these big time directors take big time swings!

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  Mufasa: The Lion King 2024

  ★★½ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  Not exactly what I wanted from Barry Jenkins, but I guess everybody deserves to get the big bag. Plus my family and I were the only ones in the theatre so that was a good time.

Popular reviews

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  Close 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2023 2

  Devastingly beautiful and almost too hard to watch as a parent, as a friend, as a brother, as a person with a pulse. 

  + Some of my favourite cinematography I’ve seen in a little while. Especially in the first half. EVERY FRAME A DAMN PAINTING.

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  I’m reading a book at the moment called The Practice of Not Thinking, and in the section I’m currently on, it outlines how there’s a big difference between actively seeing and passively looking. Nickel Boys’ attempt to help us actively see what and how these characters see and experience their world is truly a small filmmaking miracle. While I don’t think the formal choice worked at all times, I was more than happy to see the narrative come through and become more than just an incredibly artful experiment.