Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Devdas 2002

  Watched 21 Mar 2025

  @ the academy

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  A lesser director might have been averse to leaving the phrase “an endless, abrasive experience” teed up for a critic, but Soderbergh is the still the king of the tight 90.

  Loved the throwback score.

Popular reviews

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  The Villainess 2017

  Watched 30 Mar 2024

  Opening few minutes make the Oldboy hallway scene look downright tasteful. The carotid artery budget on this thing must have been nuts.

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  Pokémon Detective Pikachu 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 21 May 2019

  As with Bertrand Russell's Paradox, ("does the set of all sets that don't contain themselves contain itself?"), it can be a fun diversion to consider whether a system can be critiqued from within itself. Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019), a film based on a video game spinoff from the multi-tentacled Pokémon game/media/playing card conglomerate, places us in the ostensibly utopic Ryme City, the dream society of ailing social planner and UHNWI Howard Clifford. Clifford Enterprises runs the city and wields a…