Favorite films

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★ Watched 09 Aug 2023

  Can't believe I haven't reviewed Barbie but maybe it was just dealing with the mental toll of working at a Cinema during Barbenheimer.

  Fun, cheesy and solid performances. Take it for exactly what it is and it's good - the concept and production design are so exciting but actually as a Gerwig fan, I did not enjoy the direction at all. The pace was off, the narrative was painfully on the nose and every moment of impact came at the…

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Sep 2023

  A favourite. It has to be because I have a nearly finished script about the exact same thing so that's fun!

  Mine doesn't have the class or gorgeous reflection of In Yun so Celine Song wins this one hands down. Captivating, heartbreaking and honest. Human's relationship with love is more complicated than the usual Rom-Com and this perfected it.

  (slow start though)

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  Avengers: Endgame 2019

  ★★★ Watched 27 Apr 2019 4

  Tough one to review. I cried, I liked it a lot, it was very clever, but I also didn’t get everything I wanted from it. I expected a lot more than this. Social and political points made by the way Marvel, my face is still bruised from being slapped in the face with how on the nose this was done.

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  Rocketman 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 26 May 2019

  You HAVE TO tell your mum to watch this. 

  I also nearly pissed my self with excitement when he started singing Crocodile Rock!

  
  Could pull it to shreds and analyse how cheesy and camp it was, but I had so much fun, just sadly without Susie.

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