Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Next time anyone asks me if I want kids I’ll just tell them to watch this 🙂

  Very much loses steam in its final episode, but I gave it 4 stars not just because of its impressive filming and important subject matter but because the 3rd episode is some of the greatest tv I’ve seen in a while and I just learnt it was mostly improvised too.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Always got time for Bong Joon Ho’s weird & wonderful humour and imagination. It had me worried during its clunky beginning, the narration was quite unnecessary, but by the end I was really enjoying myself like it was a Star Wars spin off.

Popular reviews

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Apr 2024

  Ambitious, thought-provoking and even funny at times. Doesn’t provide much context but it was enough to get my brain ticking. I don’t think it’s the war film people might expect it to be. 
  Dunst stole the show for me as a hardened, fatigued and guilt/grief-ridden journalist. Her character is unlike her peers; they’re there for the American Dream ego-boost of the job, but she’s already experienced the traumatic life-altering consequences of it and retrieving that ‘perfect shot’.
  It seemed to…

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  John Wick: Chapter 4 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2023

  Cycled home late after this and dodged all the alcoholics and crackheads John Wick style