Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Companion 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Loved it !

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  Monkey Man 2024

  ★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  Had so so so so much promise. The action sequences were fun.

Popular reviews

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  All of Us Strangers 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2024

  Ultimately, I really liked this film. Devastating tear jerker with brilliant performances from all but particularly Andrew Scott and Claire Foy.  Brings to mind Andrew Haigh’s Weekend and Paul Mescal’s performance / character in Aftersun. 

  It’s staggering just on how many levels the movie operates - ghost story, love story, study of male loneliness, study of grief, queer estrangement, parental relationships - Haigh puts it all in and manages to deliver something truly special - the film’s magic sauce is…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★ Watched 17 Apr 2024

  It meanders through various cinematic set pieces that don’t logically hold together. Some of these are great - E.g Jesse Plemons scene, but most are empty because we’re literally never told what’s going on and the protagonists are mostly unlikeable. ‘Civil War’ backdrop just feels like a marketing tactic to guarantee box office success. 
  Kept reminding me of how great a film Children of Men is. It’s also a road movie set in a dystopian near-future that uses real world photojournalistic imagery to much greater effect.

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