Favorite films

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  Snatch 2000

  ★★★★ Rewatched 14 Jun 2019

  Brad Pitt (Mickey <3) in his heyday (and topless) is a glorious sight to behold. Also Brick Top is still a truly terrifying creature. Those teeth //shudders

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  A Silent Voice: The Movie 2016

  ★★ Watched 08 Jun 2019

  I know this film was custom-made to jerk those tears out of you, but apart from anger (due to the bullying), I felt very little emotion overall, least of all towards the main characters.

  The disability tokenism was also gross. Imo, the focus should've been on Shoko: what it's like to be in her shoes, how she navigates a world that tip toes around or is straight up hostile towards her, and most of all, actually dealing with the mental…

Popular reviews

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  The Big Short 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Sep 2016 2

  Two years ago someone taught me everything I needed to know about the global financial crisis (he was v proud of me that I remembered and understood everything in this movie, despite my almost complete disinterest in and lack of understanding of the financial world). I always rate films on how much emotion they evoke from me, in this case, such horror and anger and incredulity and despair for humanity. How infuriating and flabbergasting that seemingly no one in the…

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  Boyhood 2014

  ★★★ Watched 27 Jul 2014 2

  The premise was excellent, the supporting cast was great (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette were pretty much perfect) and the overall unfolding of a person's coming of age story was enough to keep you interested for almost 3 hours, but I just couldn't stand the main character. Mason was cute as a kid, but he quickly became an unbearable person. I could forgive the early teenage angst (we all go through that, and he didn't have the best childhood), but…

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