Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Men 2022

  ★★ Watched 17 Nov 2023

  Men, eh? Men. Let that sink in.

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  Leap Year 2010

  ★★½ Watched 04 Nov 2023

  It turns out that you can be racist against the Irish

Popular reviews

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  A Trip to the Moon 1902

  ★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2017

  This isn't scientifically accurate at all!

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  A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate 1923

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2023

  An odd one for Charlie Chaplin, especially as his second feature-length. As the opening credits warn, not only does Chaplin not appear (except in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo) but this is not a comedy, rather a tragedy. It's also a fairly ambitious film, eschewing much of the broad gesture typical of the early twenties, in favour of a sort of social realism.

  The plot fits into a standard morality play structure. A young girl moves to the big city (in this…