Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Springsteen On Broadway 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Apr 2020

  The greatest. The boss.

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  Possum 2018

  ★★★½ Added

  Extremely unsettling and disturbing imagery, though all offset by lean plotting. I'm all for weird, unexplained horror but felt this film left a few too many ambiguities in the central relationship / home life.

  Still, that marionette is one of the scariest props in film history - and both leads are excellent. A haunting film

Popular reviews

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  Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010

  ★★★★½ Added

  At one point, a descendant of Andrei Tarkovsky hoists a baited fish from the water with his left hand, and shoots it with his right. What else do you want me to say?

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  The Myth of the American Sleepover 2010

  ★★★½ Added

  A gorgeous, nostalgic trip through youth a la Dazed and Confused, only a touch more serious and with far less convincing acting in some areas. Some subplots are bizarre, some are forgettable, and others great. The Adney twins plot-line is wonderfully weird, and one of the film's lasting impressions.

  The title tells all there is to say about this film's message; kids build up maturity and adulthood, sexual awakenings and freedom from parents, like they do the sleepover during the…

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