Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Evil Does Not Exist 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  That town meeting scene is one just perfect. It sets up everything you need to know and care about in such an entertaining way. You leave the meeting so anxious about what this company is going to try and do to this town that the final half hour are such a surprise.

  Also the teams meeting the company has is so accurate. Most of the team in a makeshift boardroom looking at one guy on the tv whose taking the…

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Our Cate delivering some incredible looks and energy, with a makeup stand of my dreams (it’s just decked out with Maison Margiela Replica perfumes). 

  A month ago I was complaining about Koepp’s dialogue ability because of what he did with Presence and now he’s back in my good books. 

  Kinda obsessed with Soderbergh and Fincher sharing Michael Fassbender, it’s reminiscent of when Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron were sharing Bill Paxton before the divorce. If that ever happens here, I hope Soderbergh gets Fassbender in the settlement.

Popular reviews

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  Ellis Park 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Aug 2024

  If you have seen any of Justin’s previous work, you know he has an obsession with a slow pace, he loves drawing out the moment to get every bit of emotion through the screen and I really don’t think I’ve seen it work better than it does here. Maybe it’s the spontaneity of the production, or the closeness him and Warren seem to have but it has made for a beautifully intimate documentary.

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  To a Land Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Aug 2024

  Couldn’t really form a sentence as we were leaving. This is a film quite expertly made with the intention to lure you in with these characters that you really want to succeed, and then ensures you are never comfortable once you get to know them. 

  A really really really interesting depiction of what the life of a refugee is when they are constantly in a state of limbo. Just so heartbreaking and conflicting.