Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999

  ★★★ Rewatched 20 May 2023 1

  Working through all 9 Star Wars films with the girls.

  They had lots of questions about this one, including picking up on some dubious accents :/

  I think maybe the 4K remaster made some of the VFX more pronounced, or maybe I just didn't remember it feeling a bit cheesy when I saw it in high school :)

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  Mission: Impossible 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 17 May 2023

  Pulpy fun. It’d been a minute. Airplane watch.

Popular reviews

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  All Quiet on the Western Front 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Oct 2022

  A true masterclass in the mechanics of storytelling. No wasted frames, no wasted setups. Everything is important and it's woven together in amazing ways. A study in visual contrast. From the officers to the soldiers in the field. From war to nature. And the score is a subtle way of reminding the viewer that this is as much a modern story as it is in the past.

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  Triangle of Sadness 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2022

  Honestly, I had absolutely no knowledge or expectations of this going in and that was the perfect way to see it. Absolutely bonkers and wonderful and bizarre.