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  Napoleon 2023

  ★ Watched 25 Nov 2023

  Crap film. Totally taking the piss out of the viewer.

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  Good Will Hunting 1997

  Watched 27 Jul 2023

  Watched the first 45 mins then got bored. Very sort of smug film.

Popular reviews

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  The Northman 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Apr 2022

  Don’t mistake this for the standard lazy Hollywood action film. 

  The Northman follows a story that we all know too well because it has dispersed into wider western culture (think Hamlet, The Lion King etc). The evil uncle murders the king, seizing the kingdom and his wife for himself, the prince flees to a distant land, swearing to avenge his birth rites, and falling in love - the Legend of Amleth. It’s around this relatively simple structure that director Robert…

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  Elvis 2022

  ★★½ Watched 25 Jun 2022

  A film that manages to stay on one shot for an average of no less than about one and a half seconds at a time, with tonnes of shitty music, and a palette that burned a hole into my fucking retina; it was far to long for its own pitifull sake.
  I nevertheless found Tom Hanks and the silly look in his boggley eyes to be an unparalleled source of endless giggling.

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