Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Stardust 2007

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I’ll never say no to dozing off after Sunday dinner with this on the telly

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  Sisu 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Very silly! Only thing better than a girl and a gun is several women, many guns and a grizzly man that doesn’t Talk much

Popular reviews

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★½ Watched 23 Dec 2023

  Deep as a puddle but that doesn’t change the fact I had a good time

  
  I think a lot of American writing around this movie misses a bunch of the class nuance that is present in it, particularly around the fact that the upper class that saltburn represents is not the super rich, (as presented in say The Menu or Glass Onion or even Ready or Not) it’s this decaying, decrepit other thing (I'm thinking here about Grayson Perry’s The Vanity…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Dec 2023 2

  The best and worst of this film is Lily Gladstone I think.

  Her presence teases at another movie - the one I want to watch - which is just out of sight, a movie where the focus is her marriage (not Leo’s relationship with Robert de Niro), where her body (that is sick and weak but in this part of the story, does not die, survives, endures, fights and that fighting bears fruit, is ALIVE) is one of the key,…