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Favorite films

  • Trainspotting
  • The Prestige
  • Alien
  • God's Own Country

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  • Trainspotting

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

  • Excalibur

    ★★★★½

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  • Trainspotting

    Trainspotting

    ★★★★★

    The Great British March-athon (Part II) 🇬🇧 #20

    Trainspotting isn’t just about drug addiction—it’s also about the struggle to escape self-destruction and search for something better. While the film is a black comedy centred around drug use, it never glorifies it. Instead, it portrays addiction as filthy and grimy, reinforced by its gritty set design, chaotic editing, and raw, unfiltered cinematography. Beneath its darkly comedic tone, the film offers an unflinching look at the harsh reality of substance abuse.

    Renton…

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

    Captain America: Brave New World is Marvel’s second attempt at creating a spy thriller in the vein of Mission: Impossible and the Bourne franchise—and it fails, much like Black Widow. What makes it worse is that Marvel has already proven capable in this regard with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but trying to "reheat their nachos," so to speak, clearly didn’t work this time around.

    The marketing and aesthetics of this film led everyone to believe it would be a…

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  • Madame Web

    Madame Web

    ★½

    "He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died"

    It's such a remarkable quote.

    It feels like we've regressed to the era of below-juvenile comic book films from the late 90s to the mid-2000s. Despite having a blast watching it with a few friends at the cinema due to its laughably awful nature, I have to admit that the theater experience was far better than the film itself, to say the least.…

  • Anatomy of a Fall

    Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★½

    This courtroom drama is an excellent blend of mystery and intrigue, culminating in a satisfying climax driven by emotion, heart, and family drama. Just like Justine Triet's previous works, it's filmed and edited in a raw manner, lending the story and characters a sense of realistic grit.

    However, to approach this film expecting a conventional whodunit mystery with a clear-cut conclusion would be a mistake. I'm glad it deviates from that trope, as there are plenty of other good crime…