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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Soderbergh-heads are eating good this year. With his second feature length film released this year, and rumblings of a third film already in the can for later in the year. The quote-unquote retired filmmaker is back firing on all cylinders in this offbeat spy caper that’s an exercise in efficiency and salacious innuendo.

  Taking notes from 60’s espionage thrillers and John Le Carre novels with contemporary tech-babble and psychology, Black Bag, much like its characters, plays everything very close to…

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  Opus 2025

  ★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Half-baked celebrity satire that feels like tired reruns of more influential movies. It ends up having some slightly more interesting commentary on the follies of journalism and the pitfalls of writing on influences versus amplifying dangerous voices, but it all arrives too late and packaged with tired cliches that feel like a pick-and-mix of better recent films.

  Malkovich comes away shining however and it’s far from offensively bad, just needed a little more finessing away from easy shock tactics.

Popular reviews

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  Metropolis 1927

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2013 68

  Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favourite films.

  A part of me thinks he didn't quite get it...

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  Taken 3 2014

  ½ Watched 13 Jan 2015 10

  It's lazy. It's incompetent. It's lazy and incompetent. It's lazily incompetent and it's incompetently lazy. It's lazy within it incompetency and incompetent in it's laziness.

  這是懶惰的。這是不稱職的。這是懶惰和無能。這是懶洋洋地無能和它的無能懶惰。這是在它的無能和不稱職它的懶惰懶散。

  Kjo është dembel . Është i paaftë . Kjo është dembel dhe i paaftë . Është lazily paaftë dhe kjo është incompetently dembel . Kjo është dembel brenda atë paaftësisë dhe të paaftë në atë të përtacisë .

  انها كسول . انها غير كفء. انها كسول و غير كفء. انها غير كفء بتكاسل وانها…