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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  I loved the emotional experience of watching this movie. I deeply related to both characters. The characters and ideas were rich. The story needed some reworking particularly in the second half. Benji was a but unbelievable at times but it was still amazing to watch Kieran's humanity. The emotional climax in the restaurant was riveting when David exposed Benji's troubles to the group.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  Ambitious, brilliant, an incredible ending. Bloated middle that stalls - and the parental characters were silly caricatures which really stood out. It would have benefited from another editor.

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  Civil War 2024

  ½ Watched 29 May 2024

  It was like a Zombie B movie with a half baked political frenzy as the monster. A fresh concept which really could have been a worthwhile film. Unfortunately not a single turning point in the story maintained a shred of believability. Not the political stuff, mind you - that was all just innocuous, generic context that felt like it was plucked out of a Twitter conspiracy rant - I mean that almost none of the main characters' decisions or actions…

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