Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  There Will Be Blood 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Didn’t live up to the hype as an epic about the foundation of capitalist America for me. Was uninterested by Daniel’s character and don’t think he says anything very novel about “capitalism” (the idea that it’s a blunt force tool is not novel). After about half way through I felt I was just watching a guy doing a series of horrible things, which is really uninteresting when the film has already told me clear as day that he’s a horrible…

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  Ma 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Incredible piece of work but would have been five stars if it had the ending Ma deserved: locking all those cunts up in that basement and turning it into Auschwitz

Popular reviews

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  My Favourite Cake 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jul 2024 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2024 1

  I am shell shocked. The first two acts are so cruel and unrelenting that the catharsis in the final one was one of my best experiences in a cinema.