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Recent reviews

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  Beau Travail 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  A distressing lack of sun protection.

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  Empire of the Sun 1987

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  *switches of television and turns to face kids*

  And that’s why we don’t stop to pick up toys when crossing a busy road.

Popular reviews

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  Basic 2003

  ★★½ Watched 30 Apr 2024

  It’s Full Metal Jacket, it’s A Few Good Men, it’s (briefly) Silence of the Lambs, it’s Rashomon, it’s The Usual Suspects, it’s eventually Fast and the Furious (??), it’s nearly worth watching.

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  Before Midnight 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Feb 2025

  First 2 movies: how are these two crazy love birds going to make it work? there’s only ten minutes left!
  This movie: how are they still finding new levels of bitterness and resentment? There’s only ten minutes left!

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