Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  True Grit 2010

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Jan 2022

  Maybe the most beautiful Coen brother film. It doesn’t get much better than the final 30 minutes of this film. One against four, I will carry you and leaning on the everlasting arms. Gorgeous stuff

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  Four Lions 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2022

  Police state!

Popular reviews

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  Local Hero 1983

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2022

  A gorgeous film. Deceptively simple and incredibly moving. The combination of that score and the final frame will live in me forever

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2022

  A dead writer in the pool, a monkey funeral, an old Buster Keaton playing cards and the greatest ending in cinema (shared with Local Hero)

  Long before Gervais’ Extras and celebrities reading mean tweets there was this film. Before there was currency in being ‘in on the joke’ (up to a comfortable point) there was the unbelievable bravery of Gloria Swanson willing to show herself as the faded film icon she was regarded as and coming out on top in Wilder’s…

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