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Favorite films

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Mommy
  • Bound
  • Challengers

All
  • What Happened, Miss Simone?

  • Sinners

    ★★★★½

  • Paddington 2

    ★★★★

  • Four Minutes

    ★★★★

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What Happened, Miss Simone?

2015

Liked Watched

cried and cried and cried

Paddington 2

2017

★★★★ Liked Watched

cements the WCU (Wonka Cinematic Universe) as one of the best of our generation.

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Benedetta

2021

½ 1

This movie is a crime against women everywhere. I have rarely seen a movie that had such little regard for its women characters (and we all know most movies don’t): female bodies are either mutilated, raped, dead or fetishised. Nauseating and painful to watch. 

The bad comedy could have made it camp if only the director did not hate women as much as he seems to.

Forever Young

2022

★½ 1

Cannes #7

I loved the first 30 minutes which is why this movie was so frustrating to me. The setting, the nostalgia, the cinematography and the acting were RIGHT there for them and yet this ended up being an overly dramatic soap that I will forget about in a week. 

I feel like they were so focused on getting a story out of this that they forgot about the characters they had begun to build. Half of the characters (which…