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  True Romance 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2024

  It's taken me a decade to get round to watching this more or less and I'm mad at myself for it. Great stuff (wish Rapaport wasn't in it as much). Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are having a grand old time in this.

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  Adult Life Skills 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Dec 2024

  I didn't expect this film to land as hard as it did with me. It is, at its core, a film about loss and grief and Jodie Whittaker handles the subject material absolutely superbly. I think the best way I can sum it up is as a slightly more whimsical version of Aftersun with a happier ending.

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Feb 2024

  I don't think a film has ever landed such a series of punches to the gut like this has.

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  Rocky 1976

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Aug 2023

  A genuinely great film that largely stands the test of time (we'll not talk about the scene where Adrian and Rocky are alone in the apartment). Builds at an incredible pace to the point where you can't help but whoop and holler at finale. Loses the fight on a technicality, wins everything else. I'm not marking that as a spoiler, the film is 47 years old.

  I was distracted at the end however as former Scotland international striker Marc McNulty popped into my Twitter interactions. It's not relevant to the review but I need to note this somewhere.

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