Riley Smith

Riley Smith

Favorite films

  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • The Matrix Resurrections
  • Memoria
  • John Wick: Chapter 4

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  • The Babadook

    ★★★★★

  • It's What's Inside

    ★★★

  • Wicked

    ★★

  • Nosferatu

    ★★½

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  • The Babadook

    The Babadook

    ★★★★★

    I hadn’t seen this one for so long, I’d kinda written it off as probably not being all that I remembered to be. A decade on its easy to assume rose tinted glasses or the product of a younger and under-developed taste had a part to play. I think it’s actually significantly better than I ever gave it credit for. Im floored tbh, totally horrifying and hard to watch in ways that never even registered before. Horror as metaphor for psychological trauma might never have been so well realised, it blows all the elevated horror imitators out the water

  • It's What's Inside

    It's What's Inside

    ★★★

    Pretty back and forth between being very effectively stylish and trying so hard that it becomes totally illegible. Pretty fun for what it is, quite predictable despite how it presents itself, but all this concept really needs to be is a sandbox for various wacky situations and bitchy Bodies Bodies Bodies type drama, which it basically delivers on consistently.

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  • Years and Years

    Years and Years

    ½

    In this show written by a gay man, in a scene performed by another gay man, two gay men have missionary sex. Lmao.

    It’s also ideologically excruciating in the funniest ways imaginable.
    It’s black mirror but worse, literally Wot if ur kids was a fone???

    The last episode spends like 5 minutes tryna convince you that fascism happens because you used a self service till. 

    It also poses the question ‘what if the medical system became so twisted and unrecognisable that…

  • The Whale

    The Whale

    ★★★★

    Somewhat mixed feelings despite having liked it quite a lot. The kind of thing that I could see myself growing to really become annoyed with over time, but right now I’m very glad I saw it. Gave me a good cry after a shit day so that’s enough for the time being. Brendan Fraser is so fucking good, he entered The Acting Force for this one, genuinely unbelievable. Everyone is great though, it’s very much the ACTING film of the year.

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