Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015

  ★★½ Rewatched 24 Feb 2025

  James Spader is 2 of these stars.

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  Thor 2011

  ★★½ Rewatched 21 Feb 2025

  If you like Dutch angles, boy do I have the film for you

Popular reviews

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  Taste of Cherry 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 May 2023

  “You want to give it all up? You want to give up the taste of cherries?”

  What absolute melancholic beauty.

  Every shot was so stunning. The colour pallet, the framing, the imagery. Perfect.

  There’s so much to talk about this film, but I don’t think I’m able to coherently and articulately put it all onto paper as it were. But, I would like to focus on the actual movement of the plot, as I think the concept of this film…

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★½ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  “From penis to vagina.”

  There is a good concept and a pretty fine skeleton of a narrative underneath all of this. It didn’t need to be a musical, it didn’t benefit from it. It also had a few plot lines that could have been trimmed or cut.
  I have no idea how it beat Wicked for best musical at the golden globes and equally have no idea how it is deserving of so many Oscar noms.

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