Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Scum 1979

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Sep 2023

  35mm at the BFI

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  The New Girlfriend 2014

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Aug 2023

  Romain Duris coming back from picking up firewood and telling Anaïs Demoustier “I changed into mens clothes to do that - it’s easier” had me laughing so hard

Popular reviews

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  Red, White & Royal Blue 2023

  ★★★ Watched 27 Jul 2023 26

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

  The two main characters find each other’s eyes in the crowd at a party when the song “Get Low” by Lil Jon is playing and everyone else gets low to the floor. That’s one whole star right there.

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  The Virgin Suicides 1999

  ★★★★ Rewatched 12 May 2017 11

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

  What is now most iconic about Sofia Coppola’s THE VIRGIN SUICIDES is the predominant colour in the Lisbon girls’ bedrooms: the pale pink on their walls, the shade of their lipsticks and knickers has even gotten its own name, ‘millennial pink,’ possibly revealing the aesthetic impact this film has had on a whole generation of filmgoers. But what gets forgotten in this superficial praise — countless fashion shoots have taken cues from the close-up on Kirsten Dunst lying on a…