Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Haunting in Venice 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Nov 2023

  As taut and restrained as the previous two films were hammy and overblown. Excellent.

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  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Nov 2023

  Impressively better than the others in this series I’ve seen. Also impressively better than George Lucas’s attempt in his prequels to turn a hero dark.

Popular reviews

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  Nope 2022

  ★½ Rewatched 22 Jul 2022

  The movie one-by-one disposes with every interesting plot thread until we’re left with nothing… and there’s still twenty minutes to go.

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  The Princess Bride 1987

  ★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2020 2

  This film has its heart in the right place, and there are a very few charming moments. But I can't get over, now for the second time, how bored I am when I watch this film. I know: I'm an outlier.