I’d have the same reaction if offered Pepsi over Coke…. Anyway, l enjoyed this so much more than another older woman/younger man film, The Idea of You. Maybe it’s just a palette cleanser to all the movies that take themselves so seriously but sometimes you need to see a naked Jennifer Lawrence beat the shit out of some thieving teens.
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Bend It Like Beckham 2002
I know 90% of the reviews have already covered this but, “Jess I’m Irish” really was a diabolical response. Side note: Juliet Stevenson is an absolute national treasure.
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Crossing 2024
Thank you Letterboxd for inviting me to cry in a room full of strangers on a Tuesday night. Seriously though, I have never seen a film quite like this. I don’t know if any words I write will do it justice. The actors were phenomenal and the storytelling was very pure. There were a few bait-and-switch moments but it felt very organic to that maladaptive daydreaming that many of us escape into when we are searching for something or someone that is now only a memory.
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006
Sacha Baron Cohen is a European man who was privately educated and studied at Cambridge and yet he makes a career out of infantilising working class and POC characters and ensuring that they casually adopt bigoted views so as a middle class white man he can spout them from a non-white mouthpiece. Borat isn't effective satire or even funny to anyone who’s over the age of 13. His choice to make the character Kazakh yet film in Romania, exclude any…
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