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Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Amélie
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Oldboy

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  • Paper Moon

    ★★★½

  • Falcon Lake

    ★★★★½

  • Thunderbolts*

    ★★★★

  • Tótem

    ★★½

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Paper Moon

1973

★★★½ Watched

Part of The LibraryLad Challenge 2025
10/26
No. 14: Letterboxd Top 250

I always enjoy watching con artist duos at work, and father-daughter pairing, Ryan and Tatum O’Neal, do it brilliantly. There are so many shades to Tatum’s performance; the tough-as-nails, seen-too-much child whose innocence seems lost, and yet there it is, irrepressible, bubbling up and spilling out in the most delightful ways.

Ryan brings an affable screwball charm that feels like a blueprint for later Ryans (Reynolds in particular) and helps deliver a charming, light-hearted film.

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

★★★★ 1

Part of The LibraryLad Challenge 2025
9/26
No. 13: Letterboxd Top 250

Good-hearted heroes, simple moral messages, fights, humour and cinematic ubiquity - there were 18 Westerns released every year through the 1960s (compared to 7 superhero films per year in the 2010s). Were people complaining of Western fatigue, I wonder? We’d need another 260 superhero films released before we got close to the number of Westerns. 

Anyway, this is another amazing Western from Sergio Leone. Arizona, a nefarious plot,…

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The Witch

2015

★★★½ Watched

Part of The LibraryLad Challenge 2025
5/26
No. 4: Recent releases

Punishing asceticism and isolation drives young Anya Taylor-Joy to mischief in 17th Century Massachusetts.

A scathing critique of the extremist religious mindset whose insistence on unattainable perfection opens the door to the devil. The Witch is an atmospheric and convincing depiction of the horrors of Puritan life that makes for a stressful, unpleasant movie-watching experience.

A Man for All Seasons

1966

★★★★ Watched

Part of The LibraryLad Challenge 2024
37/52
No. 9: Oscar winners

The very definition of “they don’t make them like they used to”. Nothing about this film should work: a wordy and cerebral exploration of the case of Sir Thomas More, the loyal and pious 16th Century courtier, who refused to swear that Henry VIII was head of the church in England. Consisting mostly of men in rooms arguing over semantics, it should be dry as dust and yet it…

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