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  Souleymane's Story 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Fantastic performance from Abou Sangare. 
  Gets you thinking about the lives of others through details you hadn’t considered before. An exercise in growing empathy. 
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  LIFF Spring Film Weekender 2025
  Film #1
  #LIFFspring

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  The Kids Are All Right 2010

  ★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Loads of actors I like in a film I wish was better.

Popular reviews

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  The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024

  ★★ Watched 14 Nov 2024

  It’s good that this managed to get made.
  Having said that- what a mess.
  Starts slow, but managed to gradually get its hooks into me, then I was pretty into it as it became very tense and paranoid, but it all goes out of the window in the last act. While sympathetic to its message, I honestly found the last 30 mins awful- Hamfisted, bizarre choices, and a scooby-do chase.
  Pretty gobsmacked when people in my cinema started applauding at the end.
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  (LIFF2024 film #32)

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  Billy 2024

  ★½ Watched 02 Nov 2024 2

  Feel bad rating this fairly low, as I think the topic is important and interesting.
  I just found this pretty boring.
  It’s disjointed and messy, and takes a very long time for any kind of real narrative to emerge- this is all to a point but that doesn’t make it engaging sadly.
  I also wasn’t a fan of the cutesy interstitials and animations. 
  I was slightly more engaged during the final 20 minutes or so.
  I don’t know, it just didn’t really work for me.
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  (LIFF2024 film #4)