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  The Girl with the Needle 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  Bleak.

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  Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain 2024

  ★★ Watched 29 Jan 2025

  Disappointing waste of such stylish animation - looks great but is pretty much incomprehensible.

  It's written, paced and edited so poorly to the point where the bold visuals feel more like a shallow gimmick rather than something which serve any real purpose.

  I ended up being more irritated than entertained.

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  The Menu 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Jan 2023 2

  Thinks it's the burger, actually it's the broken emulsion.

  I like a lot of Mylod's TV stuff (and Ali G in da house, obviously), but this smacks of Britain's current "had enough of experts" inverted snobbery.

  Still, even though The Menu is quite smug and twatty, it is very entertaining, so it is quite burgery after all.

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Feb 2023

  Un cuento bonito sobre madurar, la frustración de la Friendzone, y el amor (no) correspondido.

  PTA siempre sabe poner un tono muy particular, y sabe sacar excelentes interpretaciones de sus actores, y Licorice Pizza no es una excepción. El ambiente de California en los 70 es tan cálido y Gary y Alana son muy queridos.

  Todo se siente como las memorias de un verano sin fin, compartido con amigos, cuando todo era posible y nada tenía consecuencia.

  Sin embargo, aunque…

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