Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Daybreak Express 1953

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Amazing use of colour, love it

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  Paris Belongs to Us 1961

  ★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  my new london cinema discovery, the ICA, has a Rivette season that just started and is running until the start of june. given i’m leaving for travelling in a month’s time, I’ll unfortunately miss most of the movies I really want to see (which aren’t often screened in the UK - this is the first Rivette retrospective in 18 years) so I thought I better head over to catch at least one of the showings.

  Anyway, I had a fairly…

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2024 2

  Completely sublime filmmaking. Everyone should see this film. [yes, including readers who have moved continents over the weekend.] I’ll spare the short lecture about why I’m usually so reticent to give 5-star ratings - but this is the first non-rewatch to which I have given a perfect rating in 4.5 YEARS!!! 

  I don’t want to start with plot-spoiling analysis in the review as I just think everyone should see it next week when it opens… I will say that I found…

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Jan 2024

  One of the best movies so far this decade, The Holdovers is a period film truly inseparable from its setting. Countless tiny interactions within David Hemingson's (debut feature film!) script appear to convey the poignancy of its principal characters' lives - in ways that never feels over-written or over-explanatory. One has a profound sense of characters' existences both before and after the movie's timespan, in subtle deft writing. Razor sharp dialogue ("What is this? The Nuremberg trials?", "Life is like…