Favorite films

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Mar 2025

  We thought he was safe. 

  Thought this was great. I think Stephen Graham is a really underrated actor and I love Boiling Point, so it was cool to see that 1-take approach applied again to a story like this. Obviously there is a focus on ideas about the manosphere, about how young men view women, and how these ideas have gained prominence through the Internet (and these themes are, sadly, very relevant and important to explore), but for me the most…

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  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  “I wish you'd stayed.”

  “I wish I'd stayed, too. NOW I wish I'd stayed. I wish I'd done a lot of things. I wish I'd... I wish I'd stayed... I do.”

  Have wanted to watch this for a while and, seeing it was leaving Netflix and having heard there’s some thematic overlap with Severance, decided to give it a try. Man. I do like films and other artworks about love, the nature of love, and I especially like those that…

Popular reviews

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  Bad Boys 1995

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  Now that's how you supposed to drive! From now on that's how you drive!

  Pretty dumb, but fun. The final confrontation is legitimately great. Smith really does just ooze charisma. Some of the hijinks Lawrence gets into are also pretty entertaining.

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  Whatever it takes.

  When I first saw the trailer for this months ago I was instantly intrigued and knew I had to watch it. I was more confounded when I heard that it was actually good, and having seen it now it’s really good. Having an artist actively involved in the production of a movie about their life feels like it would be a recipe for a glorified puff piece, but here we get a really vulnerable look at Williams.…