Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  This movie is beautiful to look at. The scale of everything is immense and awesome, the art design, the wardrobe. It’s so good. The music is great. I feel more encouraged to read the book now to get more actual backstory and plot and character building. This felt like a sort of teaser of what the book might be.

  I think overall the film is weighed down by itself. The cast is lots of big names which I found very…

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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 30 Jan 2025

  Every choice in the quiet moments of this film - the lack of music, the lack of men, the understated hair, the wardrobe choices, the soft woven textures of the fabrics - create an environment where the louder and more emotional moments are that much more emotionally resonant and intense. The romance is based in yearning and desire and sensuality rather than in sexuality and lust. And the quietness of the film allows you to simmer in that with the…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Jun 2023

  I hate when people use this term but I can’t think of a better way to describe this film than it’s a visual masterpiece. It’s a lot to take in at times but that just makes me more excited to watch it again. This film builds tension perfectly and how it balances doing too much with doing just enough on a razor’s edge at all times is astounding. The jokes land, the visuals build on what the first film established,…

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  Moon Garden 2022

  ★★★ Watched 29 Apr 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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