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Recent reviews

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  Days 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Tsai cuts through time and place with the sharpest knife.

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  The Colours 1976

  Watched 31 Jan 2025 2

  Distilled evidence of cinema as art’s finest creator of joy.

Popular reviews

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  Maestro 2023

  ★½ Watched 20 Dec 2023

  If Bradley Cooper is serious about directing then he must exercise a little restraint and learn to find focus in his work.

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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 27 Sep 2024

  My thoughts written at present would be a wild incoherence, such is the film’s vehemence, but for the moment I resonate with the following from Richard Brody’s review:

  ‘Cinematically, “Megalopolis” is a skyscraper of cards. It’s not a chain of dominoes set up to fall with gaudy precision but a mighty contrivance magnificently envisioned yet insubstantially joined, as fragile as it is wondrous. It wouldn’t withstand a push; it would just collapse in a disastrous, unrecognizable heap. So don’t push,…

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