Beautiful, mystical with all the joy, humour and magic of any Ghibli film but with the most scale and ambition you could imagine. Please watch this film.
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X-Men: First Class 2011
Watching the X-men films in in-universe chronological order is great when you get to start with such a good representation of what makes the X-men such a long-standing group.
McAvoy and Fassbender are central to why these young X-men movies are more than just an afterthought to the X-men I grew up with.
It always kills me when they say "enslaved" and cut to the only black member of the cast, but perhaps moments like that will always pop up while someone like Bryan Singer is behind the project.
Jokes (and genuine concerns) aside, one of the best films X-men has to offer.
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Oppenheimer 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Some of Christopher Nolan's best work. The historical subject grounds his love for non-linear storytelling making it his easiest film to digest. There is nothing wrong with a bit of incredulity, but the context we all come to the film with allows every performance to have its maximum impact.
My only complaint could be the ending where he chooses not to let the incredible thematic idea of the chain reaction that ends the world not actually being avoided, and makes…
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Tenet 2020
The less than positive reception of this film kept me away from it for a while. On watching, I think it has been unfairly received. Perhaps there is a bigger problem than I feel there would be to not understanding a film, but even those who were confused by the timey-wimey chronology here surely can appreciate great action and a stand-out performance and character for Robert Pattinson to present. It may not be as gripping as Inception, but I felt it did not leave me wanting more.
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