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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Parasite
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Pulp Fiction

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★½

  • Love Actually

    ★★

  • Carry-On

    ★★★½

  • Wicked

    ★★

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  • Gemini Man

    Gemini Man

    ★½

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    **1 day before Gemini Man script is due**

    Ang Lee: Looking forward to seeing that script tomorrow!
    Screenwriters: Yep, no problem mate! You're gonna love it!!
    (Ang Lee-aves)
    Screenwriters: Oh fuck! Was that due tomorrow?!


    >>> Ang Lee - Ranked

  • Paterson

    Paterson

    ★★★★★

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    "When you’re a child, you learn there are three dimensions: height, width, and depth. Like a shoebox. Then later, you hear there’s a fourth dimension: time" - Paterson


    I want more films like this in my life. Raw, organic, yet so stunningly bourgeois in its delivery of the ordinary life. Besides the poetry, which was on occasion, stifling beautiful, Adam Driver stole this film for me. An incredible delivery of such a wonderful study in being human, I recommend that you find time for this slice of extraordinary ordinary.

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  • Eternals

    Eternals

    ★★★

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    It took me writing an almost 3,000 word review to finally realise that I only really wanted to say one thing about Chloé Zhao’s 2021 ‘Eternals’ movie.

    Ultimately, it is irrelevant whether you think this film is good, bad, too long, too short, too sci-fi, not marvelly-enough, or just about anything else. Why? Because this piece is a seriously important mainstream release. It is directed by a female non-white director, stars…

  • The Wind Rises

    The Wind Rises

    ★★★★★

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    “Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through” - Horikoshi Jirō


    ✈️ Isn’t there something so wonderfully charming about Miyazaki films? Even the way that they begin like pictures from the 1930’s with elongated opening credits, lovely accompanying visuals, and beautiful music. Oh yes, they’re special alright.

    This movie was, of course, no exception from the forte we’ve come…