Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  We Live in Time 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Great chemistry and solid performances not quite hitting the super high marks for me

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  12 Angry Men 1957

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  I mean it's just incredible. A rare and joyous PERFECT film

Popular reviews

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  The First Omen 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Apr 2024

  A surprisingly excellent film.
  Inspirations jumping off the screen but never delving into pastiche or anything like that.
  A modern giallo with a scintillating central performance from Nell Tiger Free.
  Lots of people talk about the cinema experience for large spectacle but I argue that for horror/suspense it is even more vital.
  The sound design alone earns the price of admission.
  Can't remember the last time a film genuinely gripped me like this did.
  For fans of the 70s classic and lovers of the new school of Horror there is something for everyone.

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  tick, tick... BOOM! 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2021

  Andrew Garfield soars in Lin Manuel Miranda's directorial debut.
  One of the most personal musicals of all time is transformed into an ode to artistic frustration and late twenty's life crisis.
  The over-earnest nature of the stage show is removed and replaced with an ensemble full of talent.

  Adapting stage to screen is difficult at the best of times but Lin Miranda must be as bored with bad musical films as I am. His re-realised version of Tick Tick Boom…