Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Everything you’ve read and heard is true. It’s remarkable, insanely well made and acted and visceral. 
  I really don’t think enough is being made on how much of an absolute gut punch this is. It’s beyond harrowing. 
  This will most likely be the greatest thing I’ll see this year, but hand on heart, I’ll never watch it again.

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  James Blunt: One Brit Wonder 2023

  ★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  It really is pretty impossible not to love James Blunt.

Popular reviews

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  Hatred 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Apr 2017

  Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia (Michalina Labacz) is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
  This is the latest film from master Polish filmmaker Wojciech Smarzowski who made a film called Roza that shook me to me very foundations. This film had exactly the same affect on me, this is a film of…

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  Lady Bird 2017

  ★ Watched 20 Oct 2017

  Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job.
  I know I am going to be in the minority here, but simply put, I could not stand this film. I found most of the people in the film truly horrible and I simply could not stand to be in…