Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  After Love 2020

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Rather lovely little story, beautifully acted.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  More heart than anything I’ve watched in a while.

Popular reviews

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  The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 1987

  ★★ Watched 03 Jun 2021

  Totally mystified by the affection for this film. Maggie Smith is criminally wasted on an Oirish extravaganza mystifyingly populated by British actors. It’s just not very good at all.

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  Bitter Victory 1957

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2024

  Richard Burton does the whole Intense British Actor in the desert before O’Toole and long before Fiennes. He looks beautiful and, yes, intense, but the film is really quite bad. Flimsy and uneven story, bizarre pacing (did a lot of stuff end up in the cutting room?) and a weird avoidance of the fact that the leader of the British mission to Benghazi is played by a German, Curt Jurgens. Why? There are lots of puzzling moments. Best thing about…

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