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  Fire of Love 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Jul 2022

  Sara Dosa has created something truly beautiful with this archive. It is refreshing to watch a retrospective documentary that has no need for master interviews, instead opting for narration to tie the narrative together and let the archive speak for itself.
  The cinematography is beautiful. The animations complement the documentary seamlessly. The soundtrack is great, and is used brilliantly to deliver comedic moments. I have left this film contemplating the meaning of life. What more could you want?

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  Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993

  ★ Watched 28 Apr 2021

  This film is dreadful, a dismal failure. I am dumbfounded at the positive reviews. That Zaillian is getting too much credit for some of his other writing credits is the only explanation I can think of.

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  Casting JonBenet 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 29 May 2020

  Netflix is saturated with murder investigation documentaries, and I don't care for them personally. Not my taste. But Kitty Green has done something truly special here. Telling the story through actors wanting to play the parts of the real life characters says so much about how we assume, judge and become obsessed with mystery. Superbly shot and blocked too.

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  The Assistant 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 24 May 2020

  You'll beg for an extra 40 minutes on the runtime; a day two third act where Julia Garner confronts him, outs him, and changes the bleak status quo. But that ending doesn't exist. Green makes it clear that everyone around the assistant is aware of his behaviour and accepts it as the norm, and the most terrifying thing about this film is the moment you realise that this is a story about how our protagonist learns to accept it too. Subtle, unsettling, heartbreaking.

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