Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011

  ★★★★ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  Still stands up. Dark, pacey and brooding. Daniel Craig makes being a libelist journalist look so good.

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  The Constant Gardener 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  This was film was going to fair pretty well in my mind given my pre-pubescent affection for Rachel Weisz ever since she stepped onto screen as dual-sai wielding Nefertiri. Fiennes has equal stead in my brain given his majesty as Voldemort. Throw in Nighy and we are indeed cooking. Sadly, this vein of geo-political drama doesn’t seem to be made anymore. Maybe our post-truth world is too messy and fractured. All I know is that  le Carré was on the…

Popular reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  A lovely study of middle aged male hands.

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  I lol’d all the way through this. Very funny and charming. Adored the juicy interludes of jazz, almost as much as Adam Brody’s mullet.

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