Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Father 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  Caught this just as it had started on TV. I wish I'd been in a more focused mood to watch it, but it nonetheless packed an emotional punch. It loses a star for focusing on a wealthy person's experience - I would have found this film more powerful if it had been in the 'kitchen sink' style, showing the additional strains that come with not being able to afford private healthcare or not having a spare room in your spacious city centre home.

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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  Captivated from beginning to end. Happy to suspend some disbelief and not take it too seriously (the 50 Shades of Gray comparisons are accurate imo). A really fun film that I can't wait to see again.

Popular reviews

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  Frida 2002

  ★★ Watched 21 Feb 2018 5

  Fuck you H****y W*******n.

  It was actually difficult to watch this knowing that HW personally instructed that extra sex scenes be added. The scenes are unnecessarily voyeuristic and don't add much, at all, to the film, other than to make it tonally confused. Not least because of the way these scenes are shot - the lighting is too perfect, the angle of Hayek's body too contorted. Even the shot of Kahlo (Hayek) as she lies unconcious and wounded is made…

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  Enduring Love 2004

  ★★★ Watched 10 Jun 2017 2

  Why
  didn't
  Joe
  call
  the
  police
  (or put pressure on that wound)

  /end review

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