Mark Kermode

His favourite films for the years 2004 onwards are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), A History of Violence (2005), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Of Time and the City (2008), Let the Right One In (2008), चक्रव्युह (2010), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), jointly, Berberian Sound Studio (2012) & A Royal Affair (2012), Good Vibrations (2012), Pride (2014), Inside Out (2015), Under the Shadow (2016), Qabar (2016), Leave No Trace (2018), Bait (2019), Saint Maud (2019), Petite maman (2021), Aftersun (2022), Past Lives (2023) and The Substance (2024).

The problem with Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004) is it is absolutely, indescribably horrible, vulgar, stupid, tawdry, depressing, embarassing, filthy, vile, stinky, repugnant, slimy, unclean, nasty, degenerative, mind-numbing ...