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I give Dunkirk in 70mm 65 out of 70. The time thingy was unnecessary.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) July 26, 2017

The Beguiled is so beguiling I spent the whole film trying not to fall asleep.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) July 5, 2017

Relentless yet effortlessly unsettling, Una is one horrific portrayal of unforgivable betrayal and the ensuing contretemps.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 27, 2017

I've got one word to say to you about The Graduate: fantastic!

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 23, 2017

20th Century Women is a delightful slice of late 1970s nostalgia, brimming with beautiful, magnetic characters via lush cinematography.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 15, 2017

Impeccably researched and footage rich, Elián explores the temblor the eponymous unwilling (?) asylum seeker wrought on 🇨🇺 +🇺🇸 . Buena doco.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 9, 2017

yeah but where was she during the super league war? pic.twitter.com/ZCnqkwzb0Y

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 6, 2017

Lacrimation and regret abounds in the rainy, reflective, nuanced mystery The Sense Of An Ending. Broadbent brilliant, Rampling remarkable.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) May 13, 2017

As thrilling as it is mind-bogglingly incomprehensible, Alien: Covenant is bursting with excitement. Get clawed!

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) May 11, 2017

GET OUT! Get Out is simply superb and you must do your best to avoid all spoilers.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 30, 2017

Delightful and silly, Their Finest is a frivolous movie-length spoiler for Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic Dunkirk.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 22, 2017

Insanely original, patriarchy-smashing Colossal is a genre-bending delight that refuses conventions but pays homage to Seoulful antecedents.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 15, 2017

Denial is like if The Reader phoned it in.

— Patrick 👻 Avenell (@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 Avenell (@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 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) March 22, 2017

Viscerally violent, occasionally comedic, surprisingly sentimental, Logan is the superhero film for Gen Ys suffering superhero film fatigue.

— Patrick Avenell (@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 Avenell (@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 Avenell (@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 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 26, 2017

Silence is not just a high concept visually stunning and convincing advertisement for atheism, it's also unnecessarily long.

— Patrick Avenell (@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 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 20, 2017

Rapprochement, recidivism and redemption are relayed when Rent Boy returned to Edinburry in the redoubtable T2: Trainspotting. Resplendent.

— Patrick Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 19, 2017

Despite its accelerating sentimentalism, white saviourism and parabolic shaped attitude to the truth, Hidden Figures is pure cinematic joy.

— Patrick Avenell (@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 Avenell (@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 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 11, 2017

Fragorosamente divertente, Perfect Stranger supera decade sopra le righe per essere incisiva e inaspettatamente profondo.

— Patrick Avenell (@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 Avenell (@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 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 30, 2017

Wrenching, deeply original and heartbreakingly beautiful, Moonlight superbly reimagines cinema conventions. I loved it with every sinew.

— Patrick Avenell (@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 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 23, 2017

Elle is amazing! Absolutely hilarious while still being almost unbearably intense. Verhoeven has redeemed himself, Hubbert is spectacular.

— Patrick Avenell (@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 Avenell (@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 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 16, 2017

Imagine the longest, boringest, sexist episode of Black Mirror. Congratulations, you just wrote, produced and directed Passengers!

— Patrick Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 16, 2017

Allied is a terrifically silly film.

— Patrick Avenell (@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 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 22, 2016