Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Oct 2023

  Pretty. Nothing else.

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  Inglourious Basterds 2009

  ★★½ Watched 11 Aug 2023

  Hate to use the 'o' word but . . .

Popular reviews

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  Wonder Woman 2017

  ★★ Watched 10 Jun 2018

  It's been a while since I actually even watched a film due to work commitments, so it's a bit of an underwhelming return for me. I wanted to like this film because of all the meninazi critical derision, but it's just another superhero movie, with a lead actress who has had some shady dealings of her own. Gal Gadot shouldn't be held up as a hero and neither should this film.

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  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2018

  A lot of the complaints I've seen go that somehow the racist cop got redemption by the end and that shouldn't happen because he's a racist cop.

  Firstly, even if it that were true, it wouldn't make it a bad film in and of itself. Films do not have to be didactic.

  Secondly, I don't know how anyone can think he got redemption.

  I think that it is a film that is about how well-intentioned people can be driven to…

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