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Recent reviews

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  No Other Land 2024

  Watched 02 Mar 2025

  No Other Land kind of feels like it’s for an audience  who are finding out about the decades long occupation and human rights abuses in Palestine for the first time. There’s a wishful (naive?) element that simply documenting Israeli atrocities will pressure the US to pull the plug on their bankrolling of the occupation (a hope that Basel voices at one point). It’s deeply depressing that this can’t even get distribution in America because it’s actually pretty tame with the…

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  My Brilliant Career 1979

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  the pillow fight 🥹

Popular reviews

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  Veer-Zaara 2004

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Feb 2022

  😭😭😭

  As a Pakistani it depresses me that a movie like this (a cross border romance between an Indian boy and a Pakistani girl) wouldn’t be feasible in today’s political climate currently thriving on hate and fascism and strained relations. 

  That being said, the movie itself is great. Haunting musical numbers, beautiful, lush cinematography and above all, the unshakeable foundation on which our star-crossed leads’ Veer and Zaara’s passion for each other rests. Love that transcends boundaries and borders is the strongest form of love there is.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jul 2023

  This is paced like a freight train, jfc. Simultaneously feels like a maturation of Nolan’s interests and a new stage in his career, late stage Nolan is pretty interesting because for all the criticisms lobbied at him re: being too stodgy and staid he’s gradually revealing himself to be more of a weirdo than we thought, honestly didn’t think he had a film like this in him. 

  Was worried during the first 20-30 minutes of the film as I felt…