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Recent reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Sep 2023

  Watch with a Fanta lemon

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  Eternals 2021

  ★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2021

  I liked the scope. Visually compelling. Chloe has an eye for composing a shot by god. BUT…the chemistry between the characters felt weird. Stilted. It felt overly forced in some ways, yet missing something in others. 
  And some of the plot: it’s going for ‘still waters run deep’ but comes across as just shallow boring waters. That’s the only way I can describe it. 

  The post credits scene, THAT one. Horrendous. I thought it was fan fiction. Bin it! 

  Overall,…

Popular reviews

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  All Creatures Here Below 2018

  ★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2019

  This was a tough one. ACHB is provocative filmmaking through and through. Which at times was fascinating and captinvating, but ultimately made a lot of it hard to digest. 

  The film is more than aware of this though, and boldly refuses to hold back on showing you the dark and nihilistic underbelly of society in the form of its lead two characters, and not once does it ask you like them, but only to acknowledge them, and shed light on…

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  The Prom 2020

  ★★★ Watched 20 Dec 2020

  It was so nearly a 2 and a half. 
  It barely scrapes a 3 star purely down to Meryl, Andrew Rannells and Nichole Kidman. 

  I heard about the backlash with Cordons performance prior to watching and so you’d think my expectations were lowered. His campy approach felt like a cheap impression. Totally ill defined and stereotyped. I get that’s the angle with this character, but when you start to think, for even a minute, about what other actors out there could have smashed this role far better; Billy Eichner, Tituss Burgess, Neil Patrick Harris, Billy Porter…