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Recent reviews

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  The Third Man 1949

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Mar 2025

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

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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Not sure how I'm supposed to just move on and watch other stuff after this. This is the kind of art where it feels like everything you could ever want or need to know about life is buried somewhere within its depths. I know this probably isn’t true, and of course I will continue on and watch other films, but right now I don’t feel a desire to watch anything else, only an overwhelming compulsion to begin watching this again…

Popular reviews

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ½ Watched 27 Sep 2024

  Holy fuck. Genuinely one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. This isn’t even a movie; it’s a manifesto, and an awful one at that. Just the deranged rantings of a very wealthy, evidently out-of-touch man who thinks he knows how to fix the world if only we’d all listen to him, except he doesn’t even have the guts to pose any actual solutions. As his obvious self-insert protagonist claims, it’s about allowing conversations to happen. Just staggeringly vapid and…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Jun 2024

  Wow. I could not have anticipated how positively batshit this would get. Easily one of the goriest films I’ve ever seen, and also a complete blast. Sure, there’s not an ounce of subtlety here, but it’s just so kinetic, stylised, campy and gloriously grotesque, that the film totally makes the messaging by way of blunt-force trauma work in its favour. Plenty of films before have covered the impossible expectations society forces upon women, but this goes further, exploring how those…