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Recent reviews

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  Ocean's Eleven 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  When you pause it to go for a wee even though you've seen it dozens of times? That's a movie.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Fair play to Steven Soderbergh that he keeps directing his films with David Keopp as if the scripts are good. Looks great, but no tension, no heat, I keep seeing people say this is sexy but maybe they were just talking about Cate Blanchett's wardrobe? Hard to say.

Popular reviews

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  La La Land 2016

  ★ Added

  I kind of feel like Damien Chazelle hates jazz.

  Like, obviously he loves jazz, obviously, but in that way where he's so desperate to control it, he may as well hate it. Damien Chazelle is jazz music's bad boyfriend and jazz should leave him and find someone who appreciates her, not just for all she is, but for all she can be.

  So. I'm going to list a few of the things I hated about this film, but there's only…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★ Watched 22 Jul 2023

  Old Chris Nolan, rocking up to make a film about the development of a cataclysmic bomb and its use on a civilian target, ooh, let's tell this in flashbacks, and frame it with, not one, but two fucking interminable hearings, let's make the hearings the entire second half of the movie basically, let's spend more time on whether or not this guy was a communist than we do on the real life impact of the bomb, let's spend three earth…

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