Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 2023

  ★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2023

  "Work friends?! You've been inside me!"

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  Dark Star 1974

  ★★★ Watched 06 May 2021

  Teaching phenomenology to an intelligent bomb in an attempt to prevent it from detonating - hilarious!

Popular reviews

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  Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm 2009

  ★★★ Watched 05 Sep 2009

  The film holds the viewer’s attention from the nice opening sequence to the end credits, has an okay if rather formulaic story with moments of humor, and is competently directed by Harald Hamrell; however, it is only occasionally really engaging, such as during the well-staged, appropriately exciting car chase and the climax. In this case, the fact that the movie feels longer than its 91-minute running time should be seen as a compliment.

  An important but not exactly unexpected revelation…

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  Intimate Enemies 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Feb 2009

  This is a grittily realistic and contemporarily relevant but rather conventional film about the Algerian War as seen from the point of view of a French platoon and how war changes people. Lieutenant Terrien (Benoît Magimel), the young and inexperienced main character, soon learns that his initial idealism and moral values are incompatible with the way the war is being fought. The disturbing scenes of war and torture stand in stark contrast to the beautiful but harsh Algerian (actually Moroccan)…