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Recent reviews

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  Interview 2003

  ★★★★ Rewatched 02 Nov 2024

  “Als jij niets zou voelen, zou je ook niet zo goed kunnen kwetsen. En jij kunt héél erg goed kwetsen.”

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  1776 1972

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Oct 2024

  - ½ star for making it seem as if Jefferson truly cared about freeing slaves or abolishing slavery altogether.

  Otherwise riotously funny, effortlessly charming and way more entertaining than a musical about the Declaration of Independence should have been.

Popular reviews

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  Pebbles 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Feb 2021

  Even though I had planned not to review any IFFR movies, seeing all the low ratings and negative reviews Pebbles is getting so far on this app made me reconsider.
  (EDIT: I’m very glad to see that the ratings are now a lot higher than they were initially!)

  I suppose that, upon reading the description, the many viewers that expressed themselves negatively must have expected a father-child roadmovie in the tradition of Paper Moon. They must have been disappointed to find out…

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  Mank 2020

  Watched 20 Nov 2020

  I can’t rate this movie, and I’ll tell you why.

  First I’d like to state the following: Mank is a pretty movie, the score is fabulous, Gary Oldman is pretty good and from a technical point of view this might be one of the best movies to have come out this year.

  But then...

  Mank misses the spirit, sentiment and sharpness (at some point the movie leans into politics, and fails to prove any point at all; it’s just kinda boring and angry. Mank…