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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jun 2024

  It is June. Nothing has moved forward this year but the slow creep of a mind in constant struggle with itself; desire and fear. Desire for the dreams that keep me coping with a disintegrating world and body. Fear of losing what stability and sanity I have. Fear at the work it would take, the discomfort, the damage it might cause. But do I love what I have?

  Love is so difficult to uncover for me. Love - the world-changing,…

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  Nitram 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Oct 2021

  I'll say what I can about Nitram, but I think much of the intellectualising will come from people far better equipped than me. I was deeply upset by this film, in a way that I rarely am. While watching it, I felt it all through my body; tension and tightness and a real desire to pull away. Afterwards, I felt it colour my previous experience - growing up in Tasmania, my complicity in the mistreatment of these kind of individuals,…

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  Some sequences just a couple of shades too chintzy for me - but my the cinema of it all! Just thrilling! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll ooh ooh aah aah!

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  Incredibly striking, if a little curiously emotionally inert by the end for me! A number of quite magical sequences. Whilst full of grand ideas and the allowance for the audience to make what they will of them, the net result is lacking a little conviction.

Popular reviews

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  The Stranger 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Aug 2022

  A riveting, textured thriller that plays like a feature length adaptation of the basement scene from Zodiac. There's nothing particularly new about the observations on the banality of evil (particularly within the lineage of Aussie crime thrillers), but there's an undertone of creeping systemic toxicity here that charges the atmosphere of the procedural scenes to frightening levels. It's some feat that those moments match the gut-churning two hander that most of the film centres on - Harris and Edgerton are…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Apr 2024 2

  There's a lot to be said about this movie, but perhaps none more important than it was good and I liked it. Most significantly, it was a good film that I liked, though that is not to discount the fact that i liked it and it was good. Alarmingly, the film was good, but in bracingly original fashion, I liked it. Yes, the film was good and I liked it, but very little, if anything, could discount the fact that…