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Favorite films

  • Oppenheimer
  • The Fabelmans
  • The Power of the Dog
  • Minari

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  • Last Summer

  • Invincible

    ★★★★½

  • Spring Awakening: Those You've Known

    ★★★★

  • Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★★

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  • Sublime

    Sublime

    ★★★★½

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

    I found this film so endearing, I watched again it immediately after finishing my first screening.
    Written and directed by Argentinean film-maker Mariano Biasin (who previously has so far made only shorts and music videos, with Sublime being his feature debut), the film has won a total of 12 film festival awards along with a further 45 nominations.
    Biasin has written an effective teen drama centering on a group of four friends who have formed a band and are working…

  • Anatomy of a Fall

    Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★★

    Okay, well I promised a follow up review so here it is:
    Having read pretty much nothing about Anatomy of a Fall before going to my screening, I was anticipating only quality given the number of very high rankings and the average of 4.2 on LB while avoiding actually looking at any reviews.
    The film begins marvellously, revealing a small, nuclear family living in snow covered Alps in France, especially focussing on the mother Sandra Voyter (a terrific, Oscar nominated…

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  • Last Summer

    Last Summer

    Just on the strength of the poster I feel that I must now see every single film that Samuel Kircher (younger brother of Paul Kircher) appears in!

  • Spring Awakening: Those You've Known

    Spring Awakening: Those You've Known

    ★★★★

    I imagine this would have meant a lot more to me had I seen the show.
    There is certainly a lot of passion going on here.
    Jonathan Groff and Lea Michelle generate enough energy to light a small town in this thing!

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  • A Hidden Life

    A Hidden Life

    ★★★★★

    As others are stating, this has Malick's most cohesive narrative since Badlands and even parts of The Thin Red Line.
    However, it still exhibits at least some of the dream-like voice-over, jump cuts, gorgeous cinematography and music cues of much of his post The New World work.
    The plot itself is a real heartbreaker, intense, anger-inducing and beautifully acted by a superb and mostly unknown cast.
    Call me a convert all over again because this is pure gold cinema at its finest and most lyrical.

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★★

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

    Believe the hype, this is the hero Batman for our times, just as Todd Phillips' Joker was the villain.
    Matt Reeves' Batman is a complex, intellectual, emotional, dark and naturally solitary character who even pushes Alfred to the sidelines for much of the run-time, instead working closely only with (a terrific) Jeffrey Wright as Lieutenant Gordon and Zoe Kravitz's deeply hurt Selena Kyle/Catwoman.
    The villains in this take are feeding off Gotham and much of its corrupt leadership. Colin Farrell's…