and I thoroughly enjoyed it https://t.co/yGmlHSMXQ2
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 30, 2017
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle
🐆 LOL funny throughout
🐘 Great 90s gaming gags
🦏 Genuine thrills
🐍 Old fashioned adventure
🦂 Shaky internal logic
🦁 Sad Jiggy anachronism
🐒 Body positive message
🦓 Weird cameos
🐀 I loved it
🐗 Truly brilliant casting— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 29, 2017
I let @nehadk pick what film I’d see and he chose The Greatest Showman and it was…
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 28, 2017
🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑
So I went and saw Call Me By Your Name again and hooy boy it’s even better second time around. A genuine masterpiece.— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 24, 2017
Peerless cine social realism muddled by/with breathless pathos and scream out loud laughter, The Florida Project is a pastel chiaroscuro of happiness and despair, wealth and penury, childhood delusions and delusions of adulthood. It sure is superb.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 21, 2017
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 17, 2017
In 40-minute movements, The Secret Scripture is compelling then harrowing then infuriating. Mara is marvellous, Bana is banal and Sheridan is shirking. The Irish scenery certainly does its best.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 12, 2017
🛣HILARIOUS🛣
🛣HEARTBREAKING🛣
🛣HOPEFUL🛣
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 11, 2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas is the second best filmification of A Christmas Carol, after the Muppets one I saw at the pictures in my tween days.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 10, 2017
Celebrated marriage equality being legislated by seeing perhaps the gayest film of all time. Certainly the funniest of 2017… pic.twitter.com/vBlQxaBZRF
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 7, 2017
While at times lurching into near unwatchable sentimentality, Wonder still has enough humour, pathos and Mandy Patinkin to be a winner. Fascinating use of narration, recalling the brilliant About A Boy. I wish I could edit out all the guff.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 30, 2017
🍆🍆🍆 After 20 years catching dribs and drabs on TV and DVD, finally watched Boogie Nights from start to finish (and it's a long one) on the big screen. Suffice to say it is a masterpiece of direction, storytelling, character development and overall filmic genius. 🍆🍆🍆
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 26, 2017
Completely incomprehensible tho it may be, Justice League succeeds as hilarious, exhilarating cinema detritus. Srsly you lot are crazy for thinking the Marvel films are any better.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 24, 2017
Guest Review of The Killing Of A Sacred Deer by my Mum:
“One of the most stupid films I’ve ever seen.”
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 18, 2017
I laughed so hard I cried. pic.twitter.com/YUWt6005US
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 17, 2017
Loving Vincent is visually impressive but pedestrian-cum-boring and so impressed with its own genius that it never emerges cinematically from the description of its concept. Also the accents tré silly.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 12, 2017
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women has everything you want in a film – humour, pathos, depth, growth, bondage, polyamory, mendacity, romance, aviation, pseudoscience, berets, hazing, Oliver Platt – except a saleable title.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 11, 2017
Gritty realism at its most realest, 60s riot historical narrative Detroit is intense, visceral, engrossing and, somewhat unusually in this modern era of filmmaking, superbly plotted. Great use of archival footage. Highly recommended.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 10, 2017
Gory and grizzled, with enough exsanguination to challenge any viewer’s sangfroid, Jigsaw is a thrilling if ultimately unconvincing cut.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 5, 2017
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) November 2, 2017
England Is Mine is magnificent. Young Morrissey and I have a lot in common, except for all his talent and success.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 31, 2017
Whilst never exceeding melodrama, Another Mother’s Son is eminently watchable if patently ridiculous POW in the closet Jersey shore fare.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 31, 2017
The Limehouse Golem – which I thought was called The Lighthouse Golem – is gruesome, eviscerating, exsanguinating, flamboyant Victorian fun!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 22, 2017
The Snowman. Look, if the plan is to see 100 films at the pictures in a calendar year you're gonna catch some irredeemable cinema detritus.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 20, 2017
Mix Groundhog Day + Scream 2, ice w delightful skewering of university identity politics and you've whipped up the tasty Happy ☠️Death 🎂Day!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 14, 2017
Twee w/ a creepin sweetness, The Only Living Boy In New York is plum fare if you like watchin Byronic heroes chasin manic pixie dream girls.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 13, 2017
Tom Of Finland is an uplifting and amusing tale of love, freedom, tragedy and, ultimately, honesty. Flawed, yes, but still powerful.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 13, 2017
Final Portrait is a completely unnecessary and instantly forgettable film. I've already forgotten it.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 12, 2017
Abbandonato da divertenti e affascinanti a disturbare e tragiche, Fortunata affronta grandi problemi con un tocco arioso e romano.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 7, 2017
My rewatch of Blade Runner 2049 – in one of the trademarked superloud megascreen amphitheaters – was one of the most joyous 3hrs of 2017.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 7, 2017
Absolutely extraordinary. I give it 2040 out of 2049.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 5, 2017
Game set match Battle of the Sexes! Funny, fresh and willful! Stone is polished and Carell suitably clownish. Surprisingly moving too.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) October 2, 2017
Chortle-worthy if nigh on transparently paper thin, The Lovers is a tender comedy of manners for peeps who dig Tchaikovsky and Madness.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 24, 2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a rollicking good ride with laughs and thrills to the meniscus plus one of the best surprise cameos ever!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 23, 2017
C'est magnifique! pic.twitter.com/IJjHA7yD5T
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 22, 2017
The precipitous incomprehensible silliness of American Assassin in no way prevented me deriving nuclear levels of entertainment from it.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 17, 2017
visceral!
visionary!
sanguine!
breathtaking!
unsettling!
brisk!
rusticated!
compelling!
destructive!
loud!
bellicose!
architectural!
mother!— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 16, 2017
Utsøkt kunstdekorasjon og en pacad kadence kranser Kongens valg som en eminent påkjenningsbar hvis det er uhyggelig kongelig fortelling.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 15, 2017
I loved The Dinner but my mum hated it! Now, to dinner!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 12, 2017
Super chuffed I caught up on War For The Planet Of The Apes! Visceral, affecting and surprisingly complex. A terrific concluding part.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 10, 2017
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈you'll 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈love 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈it 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈too🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 7, 2017
The Hitman's Bodyguard, by the way…
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 2, 2017
Surprisingly multivalent adventurer donates costly tithe off starving to the end (3,4,4,2,1)
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) September 1, 2017
Heartfelt
And
Mild
Picture
Slowly
Turning
Eremite
Avec
Dianne— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) August 24, 2017
Lackadaisical loser larceny looms large, lowlife limey levity lingers, leftfield litigation lurks, leaving love luxuriating: Logan Lucky.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) August 18, 2017
Short Poem About Wind River
In a snowscape where grief grew,
Scarce redemption lurks in pain,
It touches you,
And you are changed.— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) August 10, 2017
Atomic Blonde is a great fillum for peeps who like indiscriminate ultraviolence, 80s synth, smokeporn and high concept vodka ads.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) August 4, 2017
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— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) August 4, 2017
I thoroughly enjoyed The Big Sick.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) July 29, 2017
I give Dunkirk in 70mm 65 out of 70. The time thingy was unnecessary.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) July 26, 2017
The Beguiled is so beguiling I spent the whole film trying not to fall asleep.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) July 16, 2017
Medlow Bath, May 1988: birthday boy Patrick gets Whitney on cassette..
Paddington, July 2017: Patrick tears up in Whitney | Can I Be Me.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) July 9, 2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming is ~ by far ~ the best Marvel film eva! Tom Holland is ~ by far ~ the best Peter Parker. And he's an Arsenal fan too!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) July 6, 2017
Baby 👶🏻🚗Driver is trrrfffc fun corpulent w/ curvets + caracols but don't expect it to pass the Bechdel Test. Da 🎧=aliment for 👂+ soul.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) July 5, 2017
Relentless yet effortlessly unsettling, Una is one horrific portrayal of unforgivable betrayal and the ensuing contretemps.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 28, 2017
Entertaining but silly on a deeply existential level Viceroy's House's only place you'll hear "We'll be safe in Pakistan" uttered sincerely.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 27, 2017
I've got one word to say to you about The Graduate: fantastic!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 25, 2017
Poética, original y pintoresca de las ciudades, el campo y las montañas de Chile, Neruda es entretenida pero no totalmente convincente.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 23, 2017
20th Century Women is a delightful slice of late 1970s nostalgia, brimming with beautiful, magnetic characters via lush cinematography.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 17, 2017
Call Me By Your Name is a near-perfect Emilia-Romagnan new wave bildungsroman, esp the roman bit. The near- is b/c it's 20 mins too long.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 15, 2017
Nova Scotia vacillates verdant ➡️albescent avec rime in the terrific Maudie. A rich tapestry of bucolic artistry and piercing pathos. 🇨🇦🎨👏
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 15, 2017
Impeccably researched and footage rich, Elián explores the temblor the eponymous unwilling (?) asylum seeker wrought on 🇨🇺 +🇺🇸 . Buena doco.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 12, 2017
De couleurs vives, avec un palais acerbe et un bouquet sentimental limite, Ce Qui Nous Lie est un bon cru, mais sub-premium.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 11, 2017
Silly but funny with accurate cartioid placement, That's Not Me is a thoroughly Melbourne take on Man In The Iron Mask. Maybe. The cast: pic.twitter.com/pkPJHsK8MZ
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 10, 2017
And then he dropped me off at Broadway and I saw The Mummy and really enjoyed its self-aware comedy adventure aesthetic.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 10, 2017
Jokes fly faster than fat lines of Charlie up Cillian's snout in the no-gag-wasted intellectual elitist joy ie The Party. Great SFF pick!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 9, 2017
Scrofulous, avaricious and infused with herbaceous intrigue, My Cousin Rachel might just be the best PG film I've ever seen.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 9, 2017
yeah but where was she during the super league war? pic.twitter.com/ZCnqkwzb0Y
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 6, 2017
Lacrimation and regret abounds in the rainy, reflective, nuanced mystery The Sense Of An Ending. Broadbent brilliant, Rampling remarkable.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) June 4, 2017
Asinine asp-erity aside, King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword is – well – watchable. Certainly no waste of money… pic.twitter.com/rA5BC1yuHA
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) May 21, 2017
J'ai aimé l'intellectualisme gnomique de L'Avenir, et le paysage était magnifique, mais de longues pièces étaient ennuyeuses.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) May 14, 2017
I vaguely remember basically understanding Guardians but I had no clue re Vol 2. Still enjoyed the relentless lights and music. 🐿 +🌴=💯
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) May 13, 2017
As thrilling as it is mind-bogglingly incomprehensible, Alien: Covenant is bursting with excitement. Get clawed!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) May 11, 2017
GET OUT! Get Out is simply superb and you must do your best to avoid all spoilers.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) April 30, 2017
Delightful and silly, Their Finest is a frivolous movie-length spoiler for Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic Dunkirk.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) April 25, 2017
Look there were some amusing moments but ultimately I'm glad I only paid $12.50 to see Going In Style.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) April 23, 2017
Unnerving in its eroticism, profound in its terror, Personal Shopper is proof that every love story is a ghost story, even between siblings.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) April 22, 2017
Insanely original, patriarchy-smashing Colossal is a genre-bending delight that refuses conventions but pays homage to Seoulful antecedents.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) April 17, 2017
Funny, iridescent, and surprising heartwarming, The Batman Lego Movie is the second best Batman film and by far the best Superman film.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) April 15, 2017
Denial is like if The Reader phoned it in.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) April 14, 2017
C'est magnifique! Beauty and the Beast is sensational! Loved every fantastical note and lyric! Emma Watson is truly the most A of A-listers!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) March 23, 2017
Tender, nuanced, laconic, Loving is easily the best film about architecture I've seen. Powerful performances too. I teared up at the coda.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) March 22, 2017
Viscerally violent, occasionally comedic, surprisingly sentimental, Logan is the superhero film for Gen Ys suffering superhero film fatigue.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) March 14, 2017
The best/worst thing about Kong: Skull Island is Kong is the most fully realised, developed, easily understood (motivation-wise) character.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) March 14, 2017
David Stratton: A Cinemtic Life is a glorious bio of Australia's preeminent critic through the prism of his fave local films. Magnificent.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 28, 2017
Deeply original, surprisingly heartfelt and wildly hilarious, Toni Erdmann is best film about the soulless corporate black hole ever filmed.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 26, 2017
Silence is not just a high concept visually stunning and convincing advertisement for atheism, it's also unnecessarily long.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 25, 2017
Look I don't like being down on Aussie cinema but I expected a little bit more from JJ. Happy to meet CS and thank him for his craft. pic.twitter.com/NnLW5booft
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 20, 2017
Rapprochement, recidivism and redemption are relayed when Rent Boy returned to Edinburry in the redoubtable T2: Trainspotting. Resplendent.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 19, 2017
Despite its accelerating sentimentalism, white saviourism and parabolic shaped attitude to the truth, Hidden Figures is pure cinematic joy.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 16, 2017
Fences breaks down race, sex and class politics in a laconic foliated fury of wise wit and threnodial poignancy. Denzel good, Viola sublime.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 12, 2017
25 years on, Wayne's World is still absurdly hilarious, if a little rape, embracing 90s Gen X lassitude with aplomb. Party on Patrick.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 11, 2017
Fragorosamente divertente, Perfect Stranger supera decade sopra le righe per essere incisiva e inaspettatamente profondo.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 11, 2017
Manchester By The Sea is gallons more than heartstring-tugging by the numbers but I still felt emotionally manipulated by its thanatologism.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) February 5, 2017
Adorned with a deft chiaroscuro at its penumbra, Paterson is a soul stimulating film of anti-action; a charming agitprop for pastoral odes.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) January 30, 2017
Wrenching, deeply original and heartbreakingly beautiful, Moonlight superbly reimagines cinema conventions. I loved it with every sinew.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) January 23, 2017
No emotional depth is unplumbed by thoroughly entertaining Lion though I was troubled by the supernatural dappling. Two Saroos very good.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) January 23, 2017
Elle is amazing! Absolutely hilarious while still being almost unbearably intense. Verhoeven has redeemed himself, Hubbert is spectacular.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) January 23, 2017
Jackie is an eminently watchable time capsule that is slightly better than a good TV movie or theatrically released Chanel commercial.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) January 16, 2017
Bursting with mirth, melodies and mammals, Sing is a glorious bagatelle that will test your ability to not sing along in a packed theatre.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) January 16, 2017
Imagine the longest, boringest, sexist episode of Black Mirror. Congratulations, you just wrote, produced and directed Passengers!
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) January 16, 2017
Allied is a terrifically silly film.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 29, 2016
Edge of Seventeen is the perfect film to kick of my 2017! Sumptuous slice of adolescent angst, lovely sibling squabbling and sublime music.
— Patrick Avenelllllllllll (@Patrickavenell) December 22, 2016
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