Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  tbf I would also spiral if I thought my spouse went to the movies without me

  Sleek, spare, surprisingly funny, efficient. Thank you Steven Soderbergh. Will be thinking about Tom Burke’s delivery of “GET SOME HELP!” the rest of my life.

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  Bottle Rocket 1996

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Starting a full Wes Anderson filmography watch in honor of The Phoenician Scheme coming soon (and I still have so many gaps in his work.) Fascinating to see early iterations of his flair in a much more grounded world. Much funnier than I expected. Luke Wilson is so beautiful it’s distracting.

Popular reviews

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  Basic 2020

  Watched 20 Apr 2020

  Ingrid Goes West in 3 minutes.

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  Mothering Sunday 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Jul 2021

  Seem to be in the minority on this one……..but it just worked for me. Wistful, achingly beautiful look at first love, loss, and finding your own way in the world that honestly kind of took my breath away. Totally bought the chemistry between Odessa Young (who totally owns the movie) and Josh O’Connor (might have to stan, such a wildly different performance from when I last saw him in Emma!). Finally we get a period piece that’s unabashedly sexy (no,…