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  The Long Day Closes 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  When a book or a poem resonates with me really deeply, I usually have some idea of how to explain it, because the book or poem is made of words, and I can use similar words to express what has happened to me. But ometimes there are paintings or films that resonate with me in a completely different way, where I hardly know where to begin in explaining what I'm feeling. Watching this film made me overwhelmed with emotion, sometimes…

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  Awful, awful film … terrible writing, rubbish performances … it just feels like nobody involved was bothered at all. Every part that could have been surprising or shocking was already in the trailer. There were a million plot holes. Bafflingly bad

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2023 1

  The marketing campaign for this film was so long and drawn out, and so often annoying, that in spite of my love for all of Greta Gerwig’s other films I had quite low expectations for it. Fortunately I was very surprised and I enjoyed the film a lot.

  The first positive is the performances, most especially Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. In my opinion Margot Robbie was just crazily impressive; right from the start she had such constant charisma, coming…

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★½ Watched 15 Jul 2024

  I watched this online because it is still not released in Europe. It’s frustrating when there’s so much discussion about a film and yet you have to wait months after that discussion ending to be able to see it in the cinema!

  Unfortunately most of the discussion around this film left me disappointed when I actually saw it. To start with, I found it hard to find emotional resonance in this story when the direction forced the actors to speak…