Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Short Cuts 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Relationships, domesticity, men - pick 2

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Psychoanalysis should have been case closed the minute he took the first bite right out the middle of the sandwich

Popular reviews

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  The Old Oak 2023

  ★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2024 2

  Sat down for Zone of Interest to realise I hadn’t checked that the subs were English.. mijn Nederlands wouldn’t cut it, more fool me. Darted next door for our Ken’s last dance.

  He goes big - even the XL Bullies got it - but it develops so evidently as one side versus the other, the good guys versus the racists, that a lot of nuance falls by the wayside. None of the characters wrestle with their own contradictions, and so we…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★ Watched 12 Oct 2024 2

  Not sure I could have liked this any less, my god. I don’t recall many occasions that I’ve been more desperate for a film to just end - the audacity to make it 2 hours 20 minutes too, fuck me.

  For whatever reason the audience is treated like school children throughout. Every filmmaking 101 cliche ever is leveraged and there is not an ounce of subtlety as every potential intricacy is rammed down our throat. Our sleazy exec producer is…

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