Jo

Jo

Grew up with VHS.
“Story” not “content”.

Favorite films

  • Women Talking
  • The Piano
  • Distant Voices, Still Lives
  • It's a Wonderful Life

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  • Triangle of Sadness

    ★★½

  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople

    ★★★★★

  • Kinds of Kindness

    ½

  • Women Talking

    ★★★★★

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  • Triangle of Sadness

    Triangle of Sadness

    ★★½

    Not big or clever despite brilliant performances. Futile, puerile, boy-fluff. A philosophy undergrad makes jackass the movie with access to a quotation generator.

  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople

    Hunt for the Wilderpeople

    ★★★★★

    Possibly the most perfect comedy ever made.

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  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness

    ½

    Saw it last night and, as others have said, it stays with you, but only in the way a diarrhoea and vomit bug stays with you, and you REALLY wish you could get rid of it because you want to stop feeling sick.

  • Women Talking

    Women Talking

    ★★★★★

    Sarah Polley and a transcendent cast take the most horrific of inciting incidents into a landscape of healing, care, female rage and empowerment. This film is the long awaited antidote to every rape-revenge slasher fest made by men appropriating female trauma into the same tired old tropes that have started wars since time immemorial.

    I clutched my best friend's hand and we wept, but we left the cinema feeling a hope we've not felt in years.

    Powerful, urgent, beautiful cinema.

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