Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Death on the Nile 1978

  Watched 26 Jan 2024

  Christ this was boring. I don't know what I'm missing because I've never got Agatha Christie. Sorry to that woman. Not even androgynous Maggie Smith in a homoerotic relationship with Bette Davis or Jane Birkin as a French maid or Mia Farrow screaming for 2 hours straight could make me care about who shot who and why. But probably a cracker if you're into that!

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  Sweet Charity 1969

  Watched 26 Jan 2024

  Camp, melodramatic, funny, stupid, a procession of the most beautiful women in the most beautiful outfits and makeup you've ever seen. What every musical should be. And MacLaine plays the comic tragedy like a vaudeville star. Legendary.

Popular reviews

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  Get Out 2017

  Rewatched 23 Jan 2018

  greatest cinematic accomplishment by an american since stanley kubrick directed the moon landing

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  The Shape of Water 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2018

  oh my goodness this was pure magic. the use of desplat's incredible score almost as elisa's dialogue makes this film unlike any other. sally hawkins' gives an affecting and heartbreakingly beautful performance and michael shannon is just the perfect villain.

  guillermo del toro is an absolute master at making completely inhumane monsters conjure up the most humane emotions in the audience.