Favorite films

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  A chaotic, nuanced, and often funny experience.

  8.5/10

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  Swingers 1996

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  A nice low-stakes comedy

Popular reviews

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  Incendies 2010

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Nov 2021

  Denis Villeneuve Marathon

  #3 - Incendies (2010)    

  Incendies is an emotionally devastating masterpiece from Denis Villeneuve, one which utilises complex plot development and deep, intimate involvement from the main characters to deliver a heart wrenching conclusion. 

  The performances by both Melissa Desormeaux and Maxim Gaudette (making his second Villeneuve appearance) are anchored by subtle intimations of emotional scarring and curiosity. The war-torn countries of their origin are portrayed with brutal honesty through Villeneuve’s writing and directing, often steadily…

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  Polytechnique 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Nov 2021

  Denis Villeneuve marathon

  #2 - Polytechnique (2009)

  Denis Villeneuve is known very well for his visual style; intimate, intense and detail-oriented. Polytechnique (2009), even more so than Villeneuve’s debut, Maelstrom, exemplifies this. 
  The IMDb synopsis explains the basic notion of the film quite well:

  A dramatisation of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist

  Given that the events played out in the film are true, the intensity and horror come not…

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