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Recent reviews

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  The Ballad of AJ Weberman 2006

  ★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Weberman, Peel and the rest of these disturbed individuals should not be encouraged, let alone celebrated.

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  Rumours 2024

  ★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Guy Maddin's wacky political satire doesn't really fire for me the way that I expected and hoped that it would. Maybe it's the low budget, or the very 2D stereotypes, which mean that I never really believed that any of these characters were actually national leaders.

Popular reviews

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  Little Buddha 1993

  ★ Watched 01 May 2019

  And you though Keanu Reeves was miscast in Francis Ford Copola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula...

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  Balance, Not Symmetry 2019

  ½ Watched 23 Jun 2019 3

  (Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019)

  First of all... I like boring films. I love all 200 minutes of Jeanne Dielman. In 2010 I watched Joanna Hogg's Archipelago with glee. And I'll fight anyone who badmouths Kevin Costner's The Postman.

  I even like Jamie Adams' boring films. A Wonderful Christmas Time has some great improvised lines (especially Sara Pascoe) and the lovely Black Mountain Poets shows that pairing up Alice Lowe and Dolly Wells will never be a bad idea. However,…

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