Favorite films

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Best compliment you can give a modern spycraft flick is that it’s clearly got the juice if you’re still keen to see the squeeze even after it’s become exceedingly obvious who the mole is. Heavy-hitter lineup, but Marisa Abela's the stand out. [8.3]

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  Get Out 2017

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  Wrote a pretty bad review of this eight years back, only noteworthy part of which is how naïve I sound slinging pebbles at first-term Trump and suggesting that this film pointed the way forward for a sharper, more racially-awokened cultural consensus. Movie still fuckin’ rules, at least. [9.6]

Popular reviews

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  Before Sunrise 1995

  ★★★★ Rewatched 01 Sep 2023 3

  There’s not enough elegant meandering in cinema, which is embarrassing given this template. Hawke lands dead-centre impressive ‘tween smugness and charm (we’ll call it ‘smarm’, for argument’s sake), and Delpy nips at any manic pixie buds by steering every wayward chat aright. Magic hour movie. [8.9]

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  RoboCop 1987

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Aug 2022 4

  A cyborgian mix of sharp political skewering and astoundingly brutal violence, RoboCop's very smart about how dumb it is. Sustained by a "Blade Runner on coke" aesthetic (and likewise tempo), it's subtler than you'd think in decrying the privatisation of social institutions... then a guy gets mutated by toxic sludge and explodes when a car rams into him. Fuckin' excellent. [9.7]

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