Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025

  ★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

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  Bridget Jones's Baby 2016

  ½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Essential vile-hag-core cinema

Popular reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2024

  Too goofy to be impactful for the most part. Strong, well-considered efforts in practical effects and cinematography are diffused by corny production design, cartoonish characterisations, and insistent sequences of violence, especially in the final act [OoOoOoh - très extrême!]. The biggest disappointment about The Substance, in all its heavy handedness, is that this is going to become the contemporary frame of reference for the whole New Extremity genre in the eyes of general audiences world over.

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Nov 2022

  This was really, really worth a second viewing. Admittedly, TÁR felt quite dense for me the first time around (when I first watched it two days ago, lol), alternating from domain knowledge concepts to hypermodern social commentary; this seemed somewhat clunky, albeit very stylishly put together.

  On this second viewing, I took more notice of the nuances with which the elite musical world and the macroculture of the 21st century are interconnected so believably through this story, and how effectively…