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  A Hidden Life 2019

  ★★★★★ Added

  Beautifully shot and with some wonderful performances, this is a bit of a slog. It insists that you hold in certain places, pay attention to the truth of each scene. It's filmed in an almost manufactured way, cinematic, romanticized, but at its core lies an honesty about who we are and what we value and how sometimes the conflict between those two things can lead to unhappy endings.
  A war film unlike any other.

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  Brazil 1985

  ★★★★ Added

  Listen, I know Terry Gilliam is an old bigoted fanny now but there really isn't anything else quite like his cinematic vision, and the level of deranged, half rotted aesthetics he brings to his worlds. Brazil is a horrible, uncomfortable, sweaty film about bureaucratic fascism with a really bleak ending. Brilliant, clearly, but I don't think I'd want to watch it again.

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  Arctic 2018

  ★★★★★ Added

  It's amazingly dischordant to be able to pause a film like this to go to the toilet or get a drink, in the comfort of your own, warm home. Watching a man defy his own fate in the pursuit of hope while cradling a stiff gin and occasionally tweeting about how quickly I would die in those same circumstances.

  Arctic is a film that perfectly frames the frozen tundra as this impossibly vast, unconquerable beast that's slowly killing it's protagonists…

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  The Thing 2011

  ★★★ Added 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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