Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  ★★½ Watched 11 Jan 2023

  Does some wonderful and very refreshing stuff about friendship and virtue for the first half or so, then promptly forfeits all of that for a violent extremity that makes the characters unsympathetic to the extent of breaking the stuff that made them interesting.

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  Bubble 2022

  Watched 07 Jul 2022

  Got halfway through this and had no idea what was happening to be honest. 

  Stunning visuals and a repertoire of fun subject material (parkour! dystopia! powers!) somehow managing to not generate enough thrust to carry my interest through a first act … very poor.

  Frankly a disappointment but I’m sure it’ll provide some nice stills for laptop screensavers and lofi playlists.

Popular reviews

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  Knives Out 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Nov 2019 1

  I feel like there’s a perception that once an acclaimed director is making a film that isn’t part of a franchise or has an original script, that that film must be sort of sombre and pretentious, or focus on some Oscar-baity true story or something like that. This is not such a film. 
  The filmmaking is exceptional, yes - the script is meticulously sharp and imaginative, the cast enormously celebrated and amazingly characterised, the visuals rich and distinctive. But it’s…

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  The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends 2019

  Watched 15 Apr 2020

  (GOES FOR CHAPTER ONE AS WELL AS THAT ISN’T ON LETTERBOXD)

  It’s really nice to see that the emotional journey of connecting to these characters and actors that the fandom has gone through was so similarly shared by those that worked on these two films.

  It’s also super inspiring that everyone who worked on this has so much incredible work ahead of them, and that a portion of that will probably reunite some of the cast because of their friendships.