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Recent reviews

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  The Intouchables 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  A really compelling film. Perhaps it doesn’t challenge our prejudice or hidden bias as much as a documentary. Perhaps that is bc Omar Sy is a beautiful, beautiful man and I stand by that. However, this film takes such a difficult story and gives it justice in a short runtime. It was lighthearted and funny in that Hollywood without consequence but also brilliantly raw and quite subtle in the right places I.e, Last half hour. It fails to get into…

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  Lars and the Real Girl 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  What makes a film profound can be undermined by simplicity when people avoid a film with a wholesome nature. There is a mean critic in me that wanted to dislike this film in case I was being too swayed by its emotion. I don’t know. I’m yapping!
  But this film is beautiful. Lars’ perception of reality is wrong even before the plot point of a plastic girlfriend. His belief that he has only had loss is so tragically transformed in…

Popular reviews

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  Sense and Sensibility 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jun 2024

  I do not plan to stop watching exclusively-romantic movies any time soon. 

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  Submarine 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Apr 2024 1

  I DID IT I WATCHED A WHOLE MOVIE (I am so ashamed that it’s been a month) 
   “Sometimes I wish there was a film crew following my every move. I imagine the camera craning up as I walk away. But, unless things improve, the biopic of my life will only have the budget for a zoom out.“
  *zooms out*. 

  This film felt like a warm and nervous hug.