Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Trap 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Aug 2024

  As a father…

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  Suzume 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Aug 2024

  I’d been meaning to watch this one for a while and I’m glad I did. Nice one.

Popular reviews

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Jan 2024

  An excellent meditation on growing up, growing apart, and what it means to become an adult and create your own world. I expected this movie to be a lot sadder from what I’d heard about it, but it’s actually quite joyful. A lovely little movie. Cant wait to see what Celine Song does next.

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  Maestro 2023

  ★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2023

  A film that looks brilliant and feels brilliant and people might tell you was acted brilliantly but has fundamentally nothing to say. 

  Bradley Cooper spent 6 years practicing conducting but instead he should’ve spent 6 years researching who Bernstein was and what he really did and believed. Through a series of technically proficient recreations of existing audio and video of Bernstein,  Bradley Cooper has somehow managed to only make a movie about himself. 

  Don’t get me wrong, people are going…

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