Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  You Hurt My Feelings 2023

  ★★½ Watched 20 May 2024

  A super PG “Girls”, but make all the characters compulsive people-pleasers who are 50+.

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  Margot at the Wedding 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 18 May 2024

  As a flag-waving member of a cerebral but dysfunctional family, I’d like to personally thank Noah Baumbach for making great character driven dark comedies about families who just cannot, and will not, get their shit together.

  Nicole Kidman plays deliciously unlikable Margot (spectacularly), who is visiting family for the wedding of her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Malcolm (a mustached Jack Black). It’s a wee bit Rachel Getting Married lite, but with lashings of Baumbach’s signature hilarious character detailing…

Popular reviews

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  Sanctuary 2022

  ★★ Rewatched 26 Jun 2023 1

  Sanctuary wants to be so much quirkier than it is, but lands face first in a pile of semi-cute (but non-sustaining) romcom-ness. Not even Margaret Qualley’s magnetism (and a dance sequence) was enough to hold my attention with a script this tepid and bleh. This should have been a 15min short - truly. 

  Do not believe the hype. This film is not sexy/kinky/hot in any which way. It would have to be smart to be any of those things. 

  There was more sexual tension in Space Jam.

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★½ Watched 18 May 2024 1

  When Tash (a steely, one note Zendaya) announces the central theme of the film in “tennis is like a relationship” ,it feels like the audience is being whalloped over the head with a big ‘ol Wilson raquet of film messaging.

  Challengers is a stylised pop-film offering. It makes for an easy give-my-brain-a-steamy-seaside-holiday watch. Zero effort required. Is it fun? Kind of. Is it even close to the heights of messy relationships, turbulent  desire, and delightfully flawed characters reached by Guadagnino…