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Recent reviews

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  Ne Zha 2019

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Chinese animated superhero myth is so diversely derivative of American studio styles that it forms an entertaining popcorn chimaera.

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  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988

  Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Wildly energetic comedy combines stagey artifice with clever camerawork. Brilliantly sassy stuff.

  (original tweet 03/12/2016)

Popular reviews

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  Willow 1988

  Rewatched 11 Oct 2021

  Gently thrilling fantasy adventure—Tolkien via Star Wars—with great locales, design, and effects. Overlong, but the actors sure commit

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  The Worst Person in the World 2021

  Watched 19 Jan 2022 3

  Enthralling belated-coming-of-age tale, tremendously scripted and performed, with adroitly deployed dark humour

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