Thomas Soud

Thomas Soud

Favorite films

  • Reds
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Young Frankenstein
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol

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  • The Commuter

    ★★★

  • Before Sunrise

    ★★★★★

  • Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

    ★★★★

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★★½

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  • The Commuter

    The Commuter

    ★★★

    A paint by numbers thriller, with twists, conspiracies and a train! Enjoyable if you don't think too hard about it.

  • Before Sunrise

    Before Sunrise

    ★★★★★

    When I first sat down to watch this film, I thought "here we go, another romance film where in the first act boy meets girl but one is not interested and has to win the other, in the second act they start to fall in love but by the end of the second act some hilarious/tragic misunderstanding keeps then apart only to be overcome in the third".

    Not for the first time I was proven 100% wrong. Before Sunrise radically…

  • Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

    Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

    ★★★★

    A quirky Christmas film. It's part fantasy, part horror, part family and completely weird!

    What the cinematography, plot and actors excel at however is making you see the world through the eyes of a child.

    The horror of Father Christmas is neither in its existential terror which is never properly developed nor in jump scenes and gore, and yet his lurking presence, his immense size, his unexplained nature and the dismissive attitude off all authority figures until the end instill…