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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Chalamet absolutely nails this role. Performances all-round were impeccable and transporting. Many of them were emotive and all seemed sincere - Mangold admirably doesn’t fail to allow Dylan’s early discography flourish and breathe in this film. The folk scene at the time also manages to have some musical coverage, which all lends to the usual folk-as-shared-heritage themes. Dylan’s habit collecting musicians and having them bounce around each other in studio and beyond is shown with some endearing studio scenes, but,…

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Dec 2024

  This was a risky movie, and it deserves credit for taking such a big swing and getting a hefty hit. A love letter to stardom and the big dreamers, the deadbeat and the tenacious. A celebration of the entertainers of the world over. Genuinely touching and sincere. An absolute blast and the biggest surprise of the year. 

  “Fuck yourselves.” 

Popular reviews

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  X 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Oct 2022

  A neat picture that manages to do a lot with the resources. A lament of the American dream, cleverly written and shot with rural americana at the forefront of its aesthetic. The characters, despite being fairly one dimensional, are absolutely fun and well written. The casting is perfect and the actors are admirable. Mia Goth is predictably as good as her praise suggests, both as protagonist and Pearl.

  The makeup crew did an excellent job both with impressively real violence…

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  Elvis 2022

  ★★★ Watched 25 Jun 2022

  A hot mess of a biocpic, with a star shining bright as The King.

  Luhrmann's style is the most noticeable element in this film. Untameable, the editing flicks us around an untidy narrative with little to no sense of consistency or direction. Almost nauseating in its lack of control, only some montages manage to strike a landing from this whirlwind.

  To add to this, the script is not up to scratch. Pace is uncomfortably loose, exposition is dropped with no…

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