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Black Bag 2025
Finally, a film I can recommend to anyone.
As editor, cinematographer and director, Soderbergh runs through a checklist of necessities for top-tier moviemaking and ticks every box, creating the most consistently entertaining cinemagoing experience I’ve had this year.
A superb cast of A-listers, familiar faces and fairly new young stars toy with the truth in a twisty, sleek and stylish spy drama that’s low on action but packed with cryptic conversations, dinner table confrontations, and mixed attempts at subtle sleuthing.
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Sherlock Jr. 1924
Perfect.
Started this expecting a Sherlock Homes parody with a bit of slapstick and ended up getting a whole lot more.
There are so many ingenious ideas stuffed into these 45 minutes from one hundred years ago - even an extended meta joke that seems decades ahead of its time - that make every modern comedy feel lazy.
The timing and build-up involved in every comic set-piece is constructed with incredible precision to get maximum laughs, and each one escalates in…
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The Killer 2023
Any concerns about whether it was worth trekking to another city to see this film in the cinema were blasted away by the loudest opening credits of the year.
The sound in this is incredible, carefully constructed with typical Fincher fussiness to maximise immersion, heighten tension, and underscore bone-dry dark humour.
The voiceover from Michael Fassbender’s assassin character puts the dead in deadpan as he coldly communicates the mundanities of murder and his nihilistic worldview.
But cracks start to appear in…
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