Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  All the President's Men 1976

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Very well-made, a superb depiction of the gruelling process of reporting with Pakula’s intense direction bringing life to the drier parts of the narrative (which is a good thing, as it keeps the focus on the investigation rather than inserting a bunch of manufactured drama). Perhaps it made sense to end it where it did when Watergate was so fresh in everyone’s minds, but I found it not to feel like it should have been at least half an hour longer and not relegated so much to ending headlines.

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  Lost in Translation 2003

  ★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Was happy to finally rewatch this for the first time in sooooo long. Such an incredible depiction of loneliness and the difference that a fleeting connection can make mixed with, uhh, some very cringe racist stuff! Weird because of course you need to express how the two leads are feeling alienated in the foreign country and therefore have to show how they are different from others around them, and it certainly works in that way, but it does so at…

Popular reviews

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Jan 2024 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2023

  Vintage Fincher on one hand - violent darkly funny thriller - but less grimy and generally cooler and cleaner, while still being incredibly tense and beautifully-photographed. A great study of a sociopath’s code unravelling - and Fassbender feels born to play this role - but also some interesting subtext on the gig economy???

  The thing with The Smiths literally never stops being funny