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foskoff

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  • Shoplifters
  • Lady Bird
  • Angels Wear White
  • Sherpa

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Out of Blue

  • Official Secrets

    ★★★★

  • Hopelessly Devout

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  • Out of Blue

    Out of Blue

    Unfortunately, this was very bad.

    Script sounds like a parody of hardboiled detective novels, which is interesting because that's a perfect summary of the book this film adapted. Somewhere along the way, though, all the humour was lost.

    However great a cast, none of them can make the dialogue sound anything other than stilted. Some samples:

    "Left... Right.... Left, right. Left! Right! Woo!" (Would you guess this is meant to be a significant moment of realisation for the protagonist?)

    "We…

  • Official Secrets

    Official Secrets

    ★★★★

    I don't cry at many movies but the story of this woman sacrificing her freedom to try to prevent and illegal war is one that definitely got me.

    In many ways a standard whistleblower/news story movie, but a really good one.

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