Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Awakenings 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Oct 2024 1

  Incredible film. That wholesome score from Randy Newman... ❤️

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  Moonlight 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2024

  Unbelievably well executed film, it feels as if it's been crafted with the utmost precision and aim towards pain and beauty.

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Jul 2023

  It's hard to know where to begin when writing about Oppenheimer. I had the pleasure of seeing the film in 70mm tonight at the beautiful Sun Theatre in Melbourne. In true Nolan fashion, the film breaks many conventions of traditional storytelling, electing to tell the story in multiple timelines that interact with one another (cutting between the various stages of Oppenheimer's career) and creating a fragmented edit that often feels more like a dream (or perhaps nightmare) than a structured…

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Jun 2023 1

  One of the best directorial debuts in recent memory, Charlotte Wells' heartbreaking and poignant film will undoubtedly announce her arrival as a new talent to watch. I've seen a lot of good films recently but I would place Aftersun at the top of that list. A beautifully photographed film, one where I found myself consistently excited and moved by the camera work and the way that Wells used the camera to communicate the fragmented and fogged-optics nature of memory. Her…

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