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  Look Back 2024

  ★★★ Watched 12 Nov 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2024

  Watched in an unintentional double sad-dad themed double bill with Star Trek DS9 'The Visitor'

Popular reviews

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  Zardoz 1974

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Sep 2020

  "Z A R D O Z !
  Z A R D O Z !"
  - Zardoz, Zardoz

  Zardoz isn't recognised as the visual masterpiece of production design that it is. This is probably because of Sean Connery's starring role, often given as a mocking example of a terrible career choice. This has turned the film into a joke, a reputation it partly deserves as it is also completely ridiculous. Zardoz seems influenced by nothing and originating from nowhere. It's this…

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  Made in Britain 1983

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 May 2021 1

  Everything about this film feels so urgent. Tim Roth is terrifying and the steadicam style is so immediate and immersive. I think this is actually better than Scum, the other Alan Clarke film I've seen