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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Presence

    ★★

  • The Jar

    ★★½

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Exactly the kind of movie you want the studios to be making. It's not trying to be a big blockbuster, it's not trying to be arthouse or Oscar bait. It's just a great director telling a solid, focused story with an A-list cast. The kind of adult thriller that used to be bread and butter back in the 70s and 80s.

    This is a bit more playful than some of the programme-filler genre exercises used to be - Soderbergh absolutely…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Petition to let freaky little dudes Robert Pattinson and Bong Joon-ho keep making their freaky little movies together.

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  • Borderlands

    Borderlands

    ★½

    Certainly not the worst movie ever, but definitely emblematic of the state of blockbuster filmmaking in the 2020s. It's a disjointed, tonally confused procession of apparently random setpieces, held together by Cate Blanchett's deadpan vamping and whatever goodwill the Borderlands IP still possesses.

    The action scenes are truly awful. Just incoherent collages of mismatched shots that exhibit no geography and build no momentum. Often the film sets up some big obstacle - such as a river of acid - only…

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★½

    Not without its moments, but a slog to get through. It can't seem to decide whether it wants to be a wacky Carnival o' Cameos sketch show or a sincere and earnest salute to forgotten and/or derided movie heroes, and torn between irreverence and reverence it ends up trying to be both which means it succeeds at neither.

    Reynolds hits the target with some of his pithier quips, but narratively it's an absolute mess, just the thinnest possible excuse for…

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