Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  An absolute riot. Everyone is having fun and looking good in this taut spy thriller with sprinkles of Agatha Christie, the Americans and John Le Carrie. Soderberg’s script is hilarious. Who knew Burke, Fassbender and Blanchett could elicit such laughs.

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  Sonic the Hedgehog 3 2024

  ½ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  Unbearably chaotic and boring. Like a checklist of set pieces and dialogue. 
  Somehow this became like every other comic book or Star Wars movie and a large ship that had a laser which could blow up the world. Will we ever outlive the Death Starification of movies.

Popular reviews

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  Red Rooms 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  The movies! 
  Terrifying, insightful, incredible acting, brilliant set design. What a companion piece to All of Us Strangers this is. Up there with Civil War for the most immersive and engrossing cinematic experiences of the year.

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2024

  I don't know what to do with this film and neither will you. A boomer fantasy is there ever was one. Yes, one day the great bankers of our time will see the error of their ways and give it to the practical artists that propose a way forward into the future....

  Some shots are astounding, some scenes sexy and others will elicit a chuckle. Shia Lebeouf's character devolving into a Trump like figure entertaining if not part and parcel…