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  The Girl with the Needle 2024

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  some good performances, but ultimately soppy and unfulfilling

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  Shakti 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2024

  the best bit is when they list all the foods, why are you trying to make me so hungry

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  Erasure is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I was apprehensive about how well this adaptation would work. But it works and adds a little more in the context of a film vs a novel. It’s not as funny or cuttingly sharp as the novel, but having Percival Everett as exec producer I think helps to keep it sufficiently in line with the novel. One bugbear is the treatment of Lisa and her death. Is hollywood too afraid…

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