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Recent reviews

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  Wolfs 2024

  ★★★ Watched 15 Nov 2024

  Terrible; I really enjoyed it.

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  Steve Jobs 2015

  ★★★½ Added

  ...what about the iPod Mini?

Popular reviews

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  Enemy 2013

  ★★★½ Added 2

  Enemy certainly succeeded in leaving me totally baffled. Logic defies here - and although I'm generally a fan of ambiguity, this does leave a feeling of cryptic overload. "Chaos is order yet undeciphered."

  Everything points to mental turmoil - and it becomes clear quickly that Villeneuve hasn't designed a thriller for literal interpretation. For me, Enemy is a film of the metaphysical, where existence is questioned in the physical form of Gyllenhaal yet distorted in the anti-realism of a universe…

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  American Sniper 2014

  ★★ Added 1

  You may recall a scene from Tarrantino's Inglourious Basterds in which the premiere is being shown for Fredrick Zoller's self-featuring propaganda documentary 'Stolz der Nation' (Nation's Pride), in which he kills 200 soldiers as a sniper.

  Eastwood's very similar depiction of glorified genocide left a familiar feeling of emptiness within after watching.

  If you can get over the "fuck yeah, America" nationalistic drivel that's a prerequisite for these kinds of films, then you'll find yourself watching a moderately compelling war…

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