Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  Todd Field must have learnt from his time on Eyes Wide Shut how to become a subversive genius

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  Lantana 2001

  ★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Was expecting more the way my parents raved about it.

  Cinematography was beautiful - maybe I’m just biased towards the Sydney scenery.
  Score - by the national treasure who is Paul Kelly - was quite apt and fitting

  However…

  My gripes are:
  1. Was slightly too long, given that -
  2. It did not allocate the correct duration to each subplot, and focused a disproportionate amount of time on Anthony Lapaglia’s character, who was by far the least compelling.
  3.…

Popular reviews

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  Queer 2024

  Watched 02 Mar 2025

  At least on my first viewing, certainly not my favourite Guadagnino film - unfortunately.

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Jun 2024

  Dear school English Faculty,

  If you must meet the quota for ‘film texts that focus heavily on socioeconomic disparities’, then maybe look a little harder than The Hate U Give. Parasite is right there…