Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Kangaroo Valley 2022

  ★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  Shamelessly anthropomorphic and squishy, but great camera work and fascinating animals.

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  Boy Erased 2018

  Watched 27 Oct 2023 2

  Terrifying.

Popular reviews

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  An Easy Girl 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Aug 2020 2

  Some things this fine movie is about: the buried, unspoken grief of a daughter whose mother just died. The disconnect between another mother and daughter. Summertime. Female sexuality as power and commodity. Sex as enticer, and mystery. The perils of devaluing oneself. Inner emptiness. Female bodies. Friendship. Hero worship. Unexpected chivalry. Expected betrayal. Yachts. Cannes. Chanel handbags. Class, class, class, in many different forms, focusing on the jarring entry of a working class girl, Naima, age 16, to the playtime…

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  Paris When It Sizzles 1964

  ★★ Watched 13 Sep 2019 2

  Clever at first, but that wears thin quickly.