Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Lobster 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Feb 2025

  another bit of bizarre comedy, becoming one of my favourite directors for pure creativity. everyone kills it in this, great watch.

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  Elvis 2022

  ★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2025

  as always with his films, visually, this is stunning, great editing, costumes are nailed. austin butler is great throughout. on the flip side, i hated tom hanks in this, he is the single thing that stops the film scoring higher for me. very long runtime but worth a watch.

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Jul 2023

  i don’t write reviews for films because who the fuck cares. however, i refuse to believe that people’s opinions on this film haven’t just been clouded in hype and sensationalism.

  the film is too long, even if it is a slow burn, i don’t want to feel like the victims of radiation waiting for it to just end. 

  the first hour or so plays more like a montage of clips that Nolan struggled to be able to sequence and thus…

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  Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2025 2

  this was way better than i expected, i didn’t read anything about this before watching it, just got recommended to me. i expected it to be a stupid superhero film like kick-ass or something but it’s not even close. Reminded me of black swan but rather than an obsession with being perfection it’s an obsession to remain relevant. good display of the internal struggle of battling ego. the camera work and editing in this is stellar.

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