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Recent reviews

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  Onward 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2020

  •In a modern fantasy world (where mobile phones and the internet have made fusty old magic redundant), two young elf brothers—Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt)—must complete a dangerous quest to help finish a magic spell that lets their late father come back for just one day. You know, classic set-up here.
  •I thought the finale was breathtaking, and enjoyed the fantasy puns, and general sense of ‘oldery’, but the road trip middle lulled a little, and maybe I…

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  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2020

  •Now here’s the best ‘comedy-drama about a 10-year-old German boy at the end of WWII discovering the Nazi ideology he’s been fed for years at Hitler Youth camps (and everywhere else) might not be, well, right, after he finds a Jewish girl living secretly in his home’ you will see this year.
  •Oh, and this boy, well, his imaginary friend just so happens to be Hitler, and ‘Hitler’ is played by writer-director Taika Waititi (Hunt For the Wilderpeople, What We…

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  ★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2019

  •So, I had a great time watching this film.
  •But... I am fully aware of its flaws, which include: a manic sense of pacing, a LOT of really big revelations in a short span of time, a feeling that it wants an ‘Avengers: Endgame’ wrap-up ending when it’s only had 3/6/9 (kind of) films beforehand, just so many characters, and a slowish start
  •And yet, what it gets right really worked for me, including Carrie Fisher and the character design…

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  Knives Out 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2019

  •Warning: once you watch Knives Out, there’s a very good chance you’ll be impersonating Daniel Craig’s “southern gentleman” detective Benoit Blanc
  •He is excellent, in a pleasingly over the top Poirot-type way
  •Ana de Armas is also very good in a tricky role, as is Chris Evans’s jumper, Michael Shannon, Jamie Lee Curtis...(they’re all great tbh)
  •Writer-director Rian Johnson has created a very pleasing, very entertaining modern murder mystery, an intricate puzzle box that you’ll love to see solved. You’ll…