Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Electric State 2025

  ★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Humans are terrible, and so was this movie.

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  The Order 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  This was so much better than I expected. Bleak and beautiful cinema in equal measure, a real throwback to cop dramas I grew up with. Easily the best I've seen Jude Law since Contagion.

  Making political social commentary about The Order feels a little trite whilst we're deep in the trenches of a major lurch to the right, but it isn't hard to draw a line to present day, as Justin Kurzel does here. And ok that cheery note...

Popular reviews

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 02 Nov 2024

  Rewatched with Hamish. An incredible movie that moved me just as much today as it did on release. Was impressed at how much Hamish was able to get with just a little help.

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  Wonka 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2023

  Really enjoyable confectionery caper that captures a chocolatey dollop of Wonka magic and sprinkles it with some very British eccentricity. Chalamet is charismatic and charming, albeit slightly one note, ably carrying the movie and musical numbers. His performance pays obvious homage to the great Gene Wilder, but if anything only magnifies how brilliant Wilder was in the role, still somehow underrated for such a classic. There was an edge to Wilder's Wonka that's entirely absent here and was singular to…