Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2023

  Sophisticated guide to grooming that diversely approaches pride before the fall. 

  It’s interesting, has language of its own and feels authentic but it isn’t the acting showcase everyone says it is, nor is it among the years best films.

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  Lolita 1962

  ★★★★ Rewatched 07 Mar 2023

  A black comedy variation to the novel that strangely works. Essentially it’s about a socially acceptable hebephile whose victim is cheating on him.

Popular reviews

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  ★★★★½ Added 1

  A dark tale of friendships end

  As Irish brothers fight an Irish War Of Independence with one another so too does Colm Doherty an aspiring musician. He no longer wants to be the friend of Padraic (I won't spell his surname) a simple and kind man who lives on the island with his sister and loves all of gods creations.

  The film is dark and serious, its frequently blackly comic and its intentions are intentionally ambiguous. Fans of the Coen's…

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  Chinatown 1974

  ★★★★★ Added

  An Evil Basking In Sun-baked Noir

  Few films perfectly capture an era and style so authentically replicated that a first time viewer would be forgiven for thinking it was made in 1937. Chinatown’s infamous script, posing as fiction but sourced from fact, is a complex but watertight tale of LA Corruption that requires approximately 3 viewings to feel concise. Accompanying its superb mis-en-scene & script is Polanski’s classical style of direction that can only count Coppola’s Godfather as those worthy to…