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Favorite films

  • Volver
  • Little Women
  • Past Lives
  • Billy Elliot

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  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★★

  • God's Own Country

    ★★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★★

    I thought about this rating for a couple of days because for some reason I felt I shouldn’t give it a 5.

    But why??

    I was smiling from ear to ear throughout, I thoroughly enjoyed the music, and found timmy totally captivating. 

    Sometimes a 5 star movie isn’t the best movie of all time, but just a really great time :)

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★★

    I loved this film so so much. It seems simple and small and yet is profoundly sad and hugely expansive? 

    5 million stars!

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  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★

    A triad of sexy tennis players moving between desire and resentment was the central pull of this delicious movie.

    I loved the way the film starts at either end of a boys to man (queer to hetero??) narrative and moves inwards, slowly revealing the moment of ego crushing spite between the two bewildered puppies. Of course they are just both love sick for the same woman - poor boys! Each whack of the tennis ball in the final duel may…

  • Wicked

    Wicked

    ★½

    Okay where to begin … a pretty low rating for a bright eyed movie lover like me…

    My heart wasn’t stirred to produce even a single tear in this long long (and dare I say sometimes boring) movie. Those people who left the cinema crying rivers, all I can say is I salute you. 

    No in all seriousness the glimmers of gold in this film for me were:

    1. Ari’s stunning performance (bravo to the good witch!) 

    2. The fact it…

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