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  • I'm Still Here
  • Kneecap
  • The Haka Party Incident
  • The Substance

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  • Layla

    ★★★

  • TINĀ

    ★★★★

  • National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

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  • TINĀ

    TINĀ

    ★★★★

    So much heart and alofa went into this film, with the powerful and emotional vā developing between all the characters over the two hours, that its easy to forgive the under-editted rougher edges of the aptly titled Tinā.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Bong Joon Ho's doing tricks on his $100 mil budget and it shows. Both in the zany gruesomeness of the story and how blunt the film's messages get. Commentary on Indigenous sovereignty, cultish white supremacy, labour exploitation and the rule of law are undelicately front and centre in this anti-Trump blockbuster. The central metaphors become questionable and I am not confident the Parasite crowd will welcome Mickey 17.

    Robert Pattinson and his silly little voice were delightful. Naomi Ackie's character is the most compellingly written and acted. Mark Ruffalo's Trump is very, very on the nose. Toni Colette and Steven Yeun are good as usual.

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  • Layla

    Layla

    ★★★

    Not even one minute in Marmalade scutters across my screen.

    A mixed bag. Important and passionately delivered but with inconsistent execution and clumsy dialogue. A similar but unique breed of drag genderqueerness and racialisation playing off of the 'straight' (in attitude, if not more literally) white man as in Femme and Unicorns.

  • National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

    National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

    ★★★★★

    A three-hours long journey of queer frolicking

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  • Muscat

    Muscat

    ★★★★

    beautifully shot and emotional

  • Beyond Gravity

    Beyond Gravity

    ★★★

    peaked whenever they were driving around akl cbd in a gay little green car doing cute gay things.

    extremely kiwi (opened with the stardome intro iykyk).