Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Empty Man 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Nov 2023

  Dude being all "Man, I'm from San Fansisco, I'm so done with this shit." was a great choice lol

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  Moonraker 1979

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2022

  Bad but in an enjoyably silly way

Popular reviews

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Oct 2019

  Gorgeous, arresting, and devastating. A slow boil romance that bubbles over into overwhelming bittersweet passion and leaves whole novels of unspoken feeling hanging in the air in every scene. It is a film in which the tiniest details are paramount. In the same way a painter can transform a piece with the most subtle of brush strokes, Céline Sciamma's patient, minimal approach perfectly ingests even the most quiet and stately scenes with a deep undercurrent of longing. A simple close…

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  The Last Duel 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Oct 2021

  Get past the slightly wonky Rashomon-esque structure and you'll get fascinating parable about how truth is written by the winners and justice for women becomes subsumed by the vanity and greed of powerful me.

  Scott is back in his Kingdom of Heaven (directors cut) mode, delivering another bloody but thoughtful medieval epic, one that feels as relevant and vital to the post Me Too era as that film did to a world still reeling from 9/11

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