A record of every single film I’ve watched (and rewatched to death) since I turned 30, in 2023.
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Chef 2014
This movie doesn’t have much conflict after the first 45 mins, which should be a problem. But sometimes that’s what I need - a healthy dose of passionate people with a good family and good friends having a good time. It’s the kinda film where even the ex-wife is a bestie.
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Challengers 2024
I’ve not sat my ass down to watch a single tennis match in my life, but now I must because Luca Guandigano has convinced me that Vatsyayana wrote the Kamasutra while watching tennis. I am now certain that the only way to make babies is to watch tennis or play tennis or be tennis! (Like literally — at one point, you get to zoom around the tennis court furiously as a tennis ball). At another point, you hear the classic…
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Civil War 2024
It’s a thrilling film with some good character drama and psychology. It’s shot really well and I wish I got the chance to see on IMAX — imagine the pulsating final 30 mins with rumbles under your feet. But it’s a political film that strangely says very little about politics. I leave the film with some admiration, for Garland and A24, as neither have attempted a film of this scale. It’s executed with conviction. But also a sense of emptiness, distance and doubt that I would think much about it in the coming months and years, unlike his first film Ex Machina.
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The Last Dance 2024
Are funerals for the dead or the living?
Against the backdrop of funerals, mortuaries and Taoist rituals about breaking Hell’s Gate, writer-director Anselm Chan tells a truly engaging and emotionally moving (and often funny) story about family, grief and smashing the patriarchal structures that trap us.
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