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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025

  probably shouldn’t have watched this on a plane

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  A Grand Day Out 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Sep 2023

  Perfect

Popular reviews

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  Little & Big Monsters 2009

  ½ Watched 09 Aug 2020

  Breakfast with nuts

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  Dave Chappelle: What's in a Name? 2022

  ★½ Watched 01 Aug 2022

  Much of What’s In A Name? is a touching (yet not comedic) story about Chappelle’s start as a comic, but it lost all its charm once he called The Closer a ‘masterpiece’ (it is in fact one of the least funny comedy specials I have ever had the displeasure of watching) and insisted that harmful hate speech should simply be seen as a ‘difference in opinion’ protected under free speech. 

  It once again feeds into this narrative that comedians are philosophers…

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