Husband, Dad, cinephile trying to fill blindspots.
These favourites are the four most recent first-time watches rated 4.5/5*.
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National Theatre Live: Present Laughter 2019
Set your brain into 'farce' mode and wait for the doorbells to ring, doors to open or slam shut, and people to lose their latchkey...
Updated to reflect a more diverse set of relationships, this is nuts and brilliant! Andrew Scott is the sun around which we all orbit, and for all the hysteria, he's definitely NOT. BEING. THEATRICAL.
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Adolescence 2025
I had heard little, but it was all raving, and even then the rave reviews didn't do it justice.
I can't believe I'll see anything better all year, probably beyond that.
The concept and conceit could easily have been preachy, mawkish, heavy-handed, sensationalist, gimmicky, finger-pointing, or even just uneven in its execution.Adolescence is none of those things. It is impeccable craft, construction, writing, direction, performances, everything.
4 episodes that all have their own themes, issues and feel. That in…
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Until I Kill You 2024
This punched me in the gut from quite early on and didn't stop.
It's only her anger that's holding her together
Delia Balmer is a difficult character. Portrayed here with ASD-like symptoms, she can function in society, but only on her terms. 'Concrete thinking' means she's often unable to recognise, process or understand people's behaviours.
But she was and is a victim many, many times. She was ignored and demeaned by the system. And every time she tried to process…
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Joker 2019
I've read a lot of reviews that seem to really dislike this, and my interpretation of these reviews coalesces around a number of themes.
(a) it's a dangerous thing that will encourage violent incels or antifa to commit acts of violence and claim Joker said it would be OK
(b) it's a shameless rip-off of Taxi Driver, King of Comedy (etc), and nowhere near as good
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