Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Sep 2020

  It's fair to call this Nolan's most ambitious movie yet, although twice the complexity does unfortunately mean double the exposition and half the clarity.

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  RRR 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Sep 2022

  Five million extras in every scene. Three hundred thousand special effects. Six battalions of british soldiers getting their faces eaten by lions. Nine hundred white women participating in a dance-off between two Indian men. And the worst sound mixing I've heard all year. What a film!

Recent reviews

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  Sing Sing 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  End credits floored me, had no idea practically everyone was playing themselves. Makes me want to watch the whole thing again immediately!

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  The Manchurian Candidate 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Gotta love a movie that feels totally evil. Tons of super creative editing techniques used to disorient the viewer. Although, with nearly every thriller which weaponises ambiguity, there comes a point where it explains just a bit too much and the effect is lost. I think Talk To Me was actually a great recent example of leaving just enough for the audience to piece together themselves. Still, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this remake is probably more pertinent than the original. Maybe I'll watch it to confirm someday!

Popular reviews

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  The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse 2022

  ★★½ Watched 24 Dec 2022 66

  Not so much a story as a collection of characters spouting unbearably schmaltzy one-liners taken directly from a self-help book. The filmic equivalent of a Live Laugh Love poster.

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  Yuri!!! on Ice 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jun 2020

  Why am I so invested in competitive figure-skating