Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Completely fine! 
  Fassbender in his well trod little fusspot/robot man mode, Blanchett kinda fun, Burke kinda fun, Brosnan definitely very fun, could have used more.

  That first dinner scene is dreadful, awful dialogue (Koepp!), looks like shit, cuts like shit, horrible light. Whole movie looks incredibly dim.

  Does the Soderbergh trick of complicating, through obfuscation, an incredibly simple plot, except usually the trick is slick and snappy and here it’s kinda sluggish and lifeless, so I ended up kinda bored…

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  Salomé 1972

  Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Bene bene bene bene bene

  Crack on the head.
  Bible story as kinky petty conspiracy, which suits huge parts of the Bible and Wilde pretty well.
  Watched without subtitles, so I'm sure some of the more specific satirical stuff went over my head but it's all about reflections and colour and melon chopping and a melting crown of flowers so who cares.

  Bene Bene Bene Bene Bene

Popular reviews

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  Both Sides of the Blade 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Feb 2022 3

  Gregoire Colin on the toilet.

  Rating could go up or down. Lots to think about.

  Maybe her talkiest film (between this, Chocolat and Let the Sunshine In, but those two feel a lot leaner and more efficient) but in way that only rankles occasionally. I really like the confidence with which Denis uses different types of digital, the opening being SD home video style, and occasional parts of it almost definitely having been shot on an iPhone. One such instance,…

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2022 1

  I’m in love with this movie. Not in the sense that I’m sexually attracted to it or anything, just that I’d like to tell it I love it and have it in my life forever.
  Maybe give it a lil kiss.