Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Avenge But One of My Two Eyes 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  I’ve been lukewarm to Mograbi’s other documentaries, but this one is brilliant

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  The Nature of Love 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  It’s a criminal oversight that this didn’t get named to Canada’s Top Ten @tiff

Popular reviews

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  Santa Claus Is a Stinker 1982

  ★ Watched 01 May 2020 5

  It’s kind of shocking to see the degree to which material based on mental illness, domestic violence, and homophobia passed for humour forty years ago. I could imagine people of my parents’ generation laughing at this (back then, anyway) but time has really not been kind to this film.

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  Hallam Foe 2007

  ★★½ Watched 25 Jul 2018 2

  “I like creepy guys” said no actual woman, ever.

  
  There’s actually quite a bit to like here, including good performances all round and plenty of nice camerawork, but the whole thing was undermined for me by the demented script, making the vast majority of the movie unbearably uncomfortable.