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  Doubt 2008

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Gets four stars mainly because Streep and PSH are excellent adversaries. Tight and compelling throughout, ending slightly disappointed

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  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Suggestive, emotive, infuriating... Sounds like jazz to me

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 28 May 2023

  I would have shed more tears if I hadn't been watching this film on a plane. Aftersun is so full of life that it did an unusual thing: it made me want to become a dad. Some shots reminded me of Beau Travail, especially the naked torsos against the blue sky and the dance scene at the end to a slowed down Under Pressure. Slow, sad, and generous, it captures the melancholy and contradiction that must be in every experience of parenthood

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  La Chimera 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2023 1

  Somehow managed to enjoy this without liking any of the characters, least of all "the Englishman." Still loved the classical allusions (the thread!)

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