Recent reviews

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  Dìdi (弟弟) 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  DIDI does not break new ground in terms of subject or filmmaking, but it does what it sets out to do exceptionally well.

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  Nightbitch 2024

  ★★½ Watched 23 Jan 2025

  This film has important, unimpeachable insights to share about parenthood, but fails to find a way, by metaphor or by narrative, to present them.

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2025

  This is not a GOOD movie, but the musical numbers kick ass, and there are several stellar performances.

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  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024

  ★★★ Watched 17 Oct 2024

  Immensely powerful story of Congo crisis of 1960 told through a wealth of archival clips. A potentially great film is undercut by an effort to include great musicians of the period (also in wonderful archival clips) in a parallel plot line that never coheres, and distracts from the main story being told.

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