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  Hill 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  In the QnA after the screening the producer said how they had recorded so many other interviews with people from his life but ultimately this is such a personal film and keeping the story's perspective fixed to Damon and his wife is probably what makes this stand out from other sports documentaries. This is begging to be made into a narrative film and you could probably lift 90% of the dialogue from the found footage which is used in such…

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  The River 1951

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I read about this film in a book about the colour of film that I got for my birthday. It went for a while and I was thinking yeah it's pretty but I don't see... and then it hit me about halfway through that not much is happening in this film and yet I'm riveted. Why? The very presence of colour in film is kinda ultimately what makes the mundane interesting because in a way colour is what makes life…

Popular reviews

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2025

  This Jesse Eisenberg kid really has something about him. Think he's gonna be big. (As a director)
  I both loved and hated (in a good way) every second of this. Pure hyper focus on such an intresting relationship. Two tiny, insignificant, characters carrying their own personal insignificant traumas in the setting of humanity's most significant, most awful traumas. Yet it is so much fun. What more can we ask for from cinema.

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  Kung Fu Panda 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2024 2

  I heavily regret not being shown this as a child.
  It is a perfectly constructed action/kung-fu movie. The humour is not as immature as I had imagined and some dialogue is extremely profound and moving.
  I'm cautious about watching the sequels.

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