Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  The kids (esp the boys) are not alright.

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  Thief 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  So ahead of it's time, watching the opening scene in 1981 must have felt so new. What a soundtrack.

Popular reviews

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★ Watched 10 Jun 2024 1

  Surprisingly bad. Everyone says it's queer and sexy.. you know what's not queer and sexy? Two straight, immature, horny and spoilt teenage boys hotting-up, ogling and competing over a borderline psychopathic Zendaya for the whole film.. and they're still like it at age 31... cool.

  Some interesting sporting archetypes are presented yes, but that alone doesn't make a film, those characters need to be fleshed out, esp. Zendaya's... why is she so ruthless, conniving and cold? (not the injury, she…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★½ Watched 21 Oct 2024

  oh ffs this is dumb.

  Smacked over the head for way too long with the most obvious and not-that-progressive social satire.

  Every scene is so overdone and meme-able that nothing cuts through and nothing makes sense.

  Nothing new to see here.

  Mostly rave reviews and a current 4.0 rating here are mystifying.. maybe audiences are as silly as this film treats them??!!

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