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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The Boy and the Heron 2023
Starts wonderfully, but ultimately becomes a hot mess of technicolour wonders, just not all in a good way.
Definitely feels like a Greatest Hits festival set, but also with more than a touch of 2001 towards the end. This is a Very Good Thing, but I cared much less about the parakeets.
As normal I watched with the original Japanese + Subtitles, but feel i may have missed something with the stellar cast for the English language dub...
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The Outrun 2024
Saiorse Ronan, eh?
That'll do Rona, that'll do.
There's not much she can't do, apparently.Liked this a lot. Not entirely sure about all the VO, but i assume they are taken from the original source memoir.
Made me want to experience the bleak beauty and inner rumblings of Orkney.Translated from by
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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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