My favourites are the last 4 first time watches (films) I gave 4.5 or 5 stars to.
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Adolescence 2025
Phenomenal on all counts. Whilst the one-take sometimes took me out of it, it never got in the way of the story, which was shocking and timely. There won’t be any telly this profound again this year.
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Eight Deadly Shots 1972
Engages you wholeheartedly over its 5 1/2 hours runtime, you practically become complicit in the lives of the characters. The burdens of rural communities are all too raw to witness, the grinding poverty, socioeconomic malfeasance and the crippling alcoholism take their toll on everyone; a masterpiece.
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SHTTL 2022
This “one-take” film is all set within a close-knit shtetl (Yiddish for village) in 1941. Revolving around one young man who left and went to study film in Kyiv. He comes back to a maelstrom of hate and indifference, just two of many reasons why the community is foundering.
With the encroaching Nazis on the horizon, the community is too busy with crises of faith, heritage and tradition in the face of modernity. A really accomplished first feature that, despite a fairly slow pace, really drew me in until that shattering conclusion.
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