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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

  • The Worst Person in the World

    ★★★★½

  • Waves

    ★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    Gatsby and Stalker tripping in a marble quarry. This film is geological in scope…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Blown away by timmee. His most mature work yet. No small feat playing and singing like that. Feel like this is a music biopic that actually has some longevity. Really powerful performances of songs that feel true to Dylan but also add something quite different, in a good way.

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  • Tenet

    Tenet

    ★★★½

    On paper the idea of Tenet is fascinating, the performances are particularly strong - especially John David Washington; although i’m not so sure about Kenneth Brannagh’s bond villain-esque slavic accent. However, my main issue is with the pacing - ironically - as it became almost cumbersome to catch up with during several parts of the film, especially those excessive sequences of drawn out action. Perhaps at times it’s too clever for its own good, but there were certainly some redeeming…

  • The Worst Person in the World

    The Worst Person in the World

    ★★★★½

    Seamlessly wedding the existential themes of both failure and death through the characters Julie and Aksel, The Worst Person in the World delivers notes both despondent and euphoric. Stillness is captured beautifully in moments that are seemingly otherworldly, guided by a reprise that is both ambivalent and yet strangely hopeful. Both love and ambition are fractured and yet moments of eternity are able to shine through in the form of quotidian romance - seeing one’s partner on the loo springs…

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