Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Clouds of Sils Maria 2014

  ★★ Watched 01 Mar 2018

  I like mountains.

Recent reviews

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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Feb 2025

  Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is several things, but it is most obviously a family-centric drama that focuses on several related people in their middle class lives in London. At its centre is Pansy, played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. She is a fraught, complex character that obsessed over cleanliness and acts with anger towards her quiet husband and socially isolated adult son. In public, she lashes out toward others, and at home, she relays tales of the same.

  Pansy remains, overall, a…

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  Everything comes together in A Complete Unknown; a finely crafted and reverent portrait of Bob Dylan, one of the 1960s’ undisputed icons of music.

  More than Dylan himself, the film explores the culture and times of New York City in the midst of the twentieth century, with all its upheaval and changing times. It portrays folk music as the zeitgeist of the times; a wave from the delta blues into the clubs of the City.

  Timothée Chalamet plays Dylan excellently,…

Popular reviews

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  Citadel 2021

  ★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2021

  This is just an excuse for John Smith to show off how well situated his apartment is.

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  Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

  ★★½ Watched 19 May 2015

  Not bad for a two hour video game cutscene.