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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
It's a phrase that everyone has heard before - style over substance. When an artist has such a brilliant stylistic concept to bring to life that they forget to use it on a worthwhile and emotionally impacting story. Well, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the perfect realisation of style matching substance to such a ludicrously, deliriously high degree that it embarrasses (most of) the stylistically-interesting yet emotionally empty superhero movies that have come before it. It does this by turning…
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Lady Bird 2017
The almost universally-loved Lady Bird was a much more difficult movie to rate than I expected it to be. Having adored Frances Ha, Mistress America, Brooklyn and even The Edge of Seventeen, I was all set to fall in love with this film, but what I was presented with was a far more sedate and melancholic movie than I expected. It’s surprisingly a film that doesn’t give away all its secrets on the first viewing - yet there’s an undeniable…
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No Time to Die 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The James Bond Series Ranked: #4 of 25
Bond 25: No Time to Die
It seems like nothing short of a miracle that No Time to Die has finally been released. After a myriad of deflating delays (and an extra painful month delay in Australia),No Time to Die finally, finally arrived in cinemas, almost six years to the day since James Bond last appeared on Australian screens. However, as big of a miracle as that is, the even bigger miracle…
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Uncut Gems 2019
Ahh, the Safdie Brothers, we meet again. The last time we met, I was left shocked at how a film like Good Time could garner so much praise — I truly felt like I was missing something. So let me say that, first and foremost, Uncut Gems is a massive improvement. That isn’t to say it’s a classic, but it feels much more like a movie I can gel with.
It’s rough going at first, however. Watching the first half…
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Disobedience 2017
First of all, why can't every film include Disintegration-era Cure songs? I'm an absolute sucker for them, as they seem to magically add resonance to a film each time they're included - and Disobedience is no exception (although as much as I wish it was 'Plainsong', 'Lovesong' is a brilliant choice here).
Second of all, I always will have an affinity for a story where a long-gone resident returns home, often as an interloper, to a world they've long tried to…
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The Gentlemen 2019
If you’re after a crowd-pleasing British black comedy to start your year, you absolutely can’t go wrong with Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. If black comedies aren’t your thing, this certainly won’t be for you though - there’s the edgy humour that’s always a whisker away from overstepping the mark, alongside seemingly endless amounts of profanity-filled dialogue and regular spurts of gun violence. Yet if it is your thing, it delivers in spades.
What The Gentlemen has over other, lesser imitators is…
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