Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  When Harry Met Sally... 1989

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Dec 2020

  Surely the greatest rom-com of all time.

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2020

  Well, I liked it plenty. Didn’t think it was too baffling either — Memento was worse.

Popular reviews

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  Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 May 2015

  Mad Max Fury Road is an unhinged banshee with an Australian accent howling in the key of a redlined turbo charged V12.

  I loved it.

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  Die Hard 2 1990

  ★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2013

  Die Hard movies break down into two subtypes: The Good Ones (1, 2, ...With A Vengeance) and The Rest. I won't discuss the latter here. Die Hard 2, then: by a comfortable margin the worst of the good ones.

  It's clearly been written and directed to up the ante on the first one: more elaborate firefights, more explosions, more skin-of-McClane's-teeth escapes. But in the rush to turn all the dials up to 11, we start to lose the main quality…