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  Blitz 2024

  ★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2024

  A lovely idea, with great heart and some good performances. It’s just a shame that it fails as a movie in ways that you don’t expect from someone as experienced as McQueen.

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  Beatles '64 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2024

  The Maysles brothers footage does most of the heavy lifting, and the film is worth it just to make that material more readily available.

Popular reviews

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  Confidentially Yours 1983

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Sep 2018

  Truffaut leaves the world of cinema as he came in: through Alfred Hitchcock.

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  First Man 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Oct 2018

  An incredibly mature step for a young director like Damien Chazelle, particularly in contrast with his previous films.

  In terms of form, a very exciting film, in more ways that one. The cinematic language departs from the well-tread sheen of modern Hollywood. A number of sequences have an almost documentary feel, aided by the use of 16mm film throughout for an dab of "authenticity". If the film doesn't tick your boxes in any other way, at least be glad that…