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  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2022 6

  Pretty much pitch perfect in every conceivable way, from the performances and the direction to the atmosphere and wonderous scoring, though it was the unexpectedly moving ending that suddenly sealed the deal for me as an all time favourite, a denouement of such extraordinary romanticism that I'll happily admit caught me off guard, this light-hearted comedy fantasy with such a daft premise had quietly disarmed all my critical faculties and rendered me a blubbering mess.

  Non-horror ghost stories had already…

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  Platform 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2021 2

  Zhangke has described Platform as a weight on his heart that if he didn't remove he wouldn't be able to do anything else, a film so epic in scope that it couldn't be his feature debut as intended, but instead became a sophomore effort and his magnum opus.

  Spanning a tumultuous decade that begins in 1979, the film follows the lives of a group of young people during China's Cultural Revolution, a generation swept up by changes so drastic that…

Recent reviews

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  Queen of the Desert 2015

  ★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Herzog at his most reverent, conventional and misguided, Queen of the Desert represents the nadir of his otherwise outstanding career in cinema, a rare misfire that features none of the ecstatic otherworldliness you'd expect, in fact the film is so generic, so impersonal that you'd never guess it was him behind the camera if his name wasn't on the credits.

  On paper there is potential—a terrific cast of high profile stars, some exotic locales that allow Herzog to indulge in…

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Arthouse cinema with a capital A for those who have never seen an arthouse film before, Saltburn is a beautiful but vapid satire from Emerald Fennell (yes that is her real name) which fails to bring anything new to its take-down of overprivileged layabouts or say anything about class struggle that hasn't been said before, whilst its self-satisfied narrative of obsession is just Brideshead Revisited by way of Patricia Highsmith and Pasolini's Teorema, for the Indie sleaze generation.

  It's a…

Popular reviews

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  Antoine and Colette 1962

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Nov 2017

  Friendzone: New Wave edition.

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  Welcome, or No Trespassing 1964

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jun 2018

  I never would have thought that Elim Klimov, the man behind one of the most horrifying and relentlessly powerful war films, Come and See was making charming satirical comedies twenty years prior.

  I didn't read any reviews on here beforehand, but immediately picked up the Wes Anderson aesthetic and noticed the similarities with Moonrise Kingdom, and seeing that movie mentioned straight away by someone here confirms my suspicions that Anderson has probably seen this and taken inspiration. Klimov's offbeat comedy,…