Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025

  ★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  A very threadbare retelling of the book which is stuffed to the gills with true crime gold.
  One plus, I had never heard Manson’s music before, the songs are surprisingly delicate and beautiful with poetic lyrics and his voice is quite gorgeous.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Pattinson’s character is very likable and this is entertaining enough but far too long and I didn’t understand why so much time was spent on the creatures, who cares about them?
  In Okja we feel sympathy for the creature and it plays an integral part in the story, here that didn’t really work I thought.

Popular reviews

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  The White Ribbon 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2022

  Incredible film. Haneke is one for packing a universe of world history, family drama, human psychology into one movie.
  In a way it’s a horror movie where all the horror parts are played out offscreen yet somehow are all the more palpable because of this. As you watch it it feels like a belt slowly tightens across your chest. At the same time we’re shown delightful vignettes of small town life pre WW1: farming, community, church and young love. There’s…

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  Confess, Fletch 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Sep 2022 1

  Loved it, reminded me in a lot of ways of Bored To Death, one of my favorite series of all time.
  Great cast and wonderfully shot by one of my favs, Sam Levy (While We’re Young, Ladybird, Frances Ha).

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