Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  There’s so much to this film, it’s hard to break it down. Visually it’s stunning. The tense atmosphere is wonderfully enhanced by the dramatic lighting and detailed sound design. The set design is insane, one second your surrounded by decaying yet elegant architecture and fresco paintings, next second your in a well lit modern marble hallway that straight-up belongs in a sci-fi villain’s lair.
  I think this reflects one of the main themes of the film which discusses how the…

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  BlacKkKlansman 2018

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  A cool story to tell, but an overall mediocre film. It seems to have been made to be more digestible for a wider audience, not challenging the viewers whatsoever, containing very little thought-provoking material while carrying a supposed heavy political message that blurs throughout. 
  There was a few funny moments but honestly I could barely tell it was a comedy film while watching it.
  It felt cheap to use a montage of news footage at the end to communicate a message you’ve failed to successfully communicate within your film.

Popular reviews

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  The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  “there are still faint glimmers of civilisation left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity”… and this film is one of them

  I remember, having never seen a live action Wes Anderson film before, being blown away on my first watch, immediately falling in love with his style.
  On the rewatch I’m still blown away. Every frame of this film belongs in the Louvre, it’s honestly frustrating how stunning it is. 
  Not only the design, but the writing, the eccentric characters, the witty dialogue, the ridiculous yet engrossing plot, it all works so well together.

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  A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001

  ★★★ Rewatched 02 Mar 2025

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

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