Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Jun 2016

  "we accept the love we think we deserve". Well, fuck.

  - I rewatched this alone late at night with the lights off and I'm an emotional wreck right now.
  - I sometimes worry about how much I relate to Charlie, and I don't even have some traumatic life event to acknowledge as the root of all this.
  - My heart breaks every time I hear "Asleep" by The Smiths, and I'd forgotten that this is where I would have heard…

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  Annie Hall 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jul 2017

  After 10 years, through everything, this is it. This is the one that is, somehow, above all others. This is the one that I keep coming back to because, well, some of us... need the eggs.

Recent reviews

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  The Outrun 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  A lot of time for this - quietly understated, and Ronan is as good as ever. Love the hair colour as chronology device, whilst still leaving a decent amount of ambiguity up to interpretation.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Does not feel its runtime (a compliment!). It’s a whole load of stuff thrown at the screen and a good amount of it sticks.

Popular reviews

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  A Tale of Two Kitchens 2019

  ★★★ Watched 23 May 2019

  Entirely in it for the shots of that strawberry cream cake. The point is made, quite explicitly in talking head form, about this dichotomy of America's dislike of Mexicans but love of Mexican food, but then the film fails to make much more of it.

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  Suede: The Insatiable Ones 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Dec 2018

  It's impressive how unrestrained the members of Suede are here in The Insatiable Ones, the honesty in admitting where they went wrong, their mistakes, their regrets. It's this that puts it above a great many music docs. That and it features Richard Osman with the caption "Matt's brother"