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Recent reviews

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2025

  Fab as ever

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  Memoir of a Snail 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  Excellent

Popular reviews

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  Nativity! 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  Wowee - I knew I liked it, but do I remember loving it as much as this? Laugh out loud from start to finish. Absolutely ridiculous and that’s what you want from a Christmas film. Potentially displaces The Holiday from my no. 1 - I’ll get back to you on that.

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  Small Things Like These 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2024

  Simple, yet difficult; the right thing often is. Small Things Like These, in its own quiet way, questions our assumptions of people: who really knows what’s going on in other’s lives? No one, really. This film asks its audience to treat everyone the same, treat them as our own, and treat them right.

  Hard exterior but emotional, Billy (Cillian ❤️) is an apparent outlier; too generous, too gentle. In the end, though, the right thing - the hard thing - is done. In the end, compassion and kindness is the universal leveller.

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