Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Greatest Showman 2017

  ★★ Watched 24 Jan 2018 1

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

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  Bright 2017

  ★★½ Watched 23 Dec 2017

  Bright is poorly written, well acted, sickly cheesy, fun, feels like a video game, but a video game I’d want to play. Verdict: my new ‘Van Helsing’

Popular reviews

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  Barton Fink 1991

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2013 11

  Barton Fink is packed full of symbolism, allegory, and open-ended questions. About one man's struggles as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the film is at once realism and surrealism; comedy and tragedy. Willing you to discern meaning behind images and lines, Joel and Ethan Coen tease the viewer with a multitude of possible interpretations of their story and its characters. Littered with references to other films, novels, and poems, the viewing experience is overwhelming but rewarding.

  With exhilarating performances from John…

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  Drive 2011

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Feb 2013 17

  Breathtaking cinematography, and a stimulating soundtrack, work together to make Nicholas Winding Refn's Drive one of the most seductive pieces of cinema in recent years. Its polished neo-noir style is intoxicating, taking a lustrous Los Angeles skyline at night as a backdrop to its story of crime and revenge. Often criticized for its overuse of the pause, it is the film’s confident handling of tension and catharsis that makes it a silently powerful thriller.

  Ryan Gosling is our hero without…