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  • Adolescence

    ★★★★★

  • Maestro

    ★★

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★½

  • The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★

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  • Adolescence

    Adolescence

    ★★★★★

    "How did he make me and I make that?"

    The show communicates a staggering number of themes and messages with carefully chosen naturalistic dialogue and does an incredible job at really getting inside the minds of many of its characters, as well as the one-shot approach making each episode really tense and endlessly engaging. I can't think of anything they could have done better. I'm glad they ended it before the trial- this isn't a true crime thriller, we've known…

  • Maestro

    Maestro

    ★★

    At no point is it not obvious that Bradley Cooper directed and co-wrote this. The fact that his face is closed-up on for what feels like 99% of the film (there isn't a single scene he's not in) and that when Carey Mulligan has an emotional scene to perform we have to see her from behind and from the other side of the room, or with her hands covering her face, really irked me. He is literally never not on…

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  • Paris, Texas

    Paris, Texas

    ★★★★★

    Devastating

  • Booksmart

    Booksmart

    ½

    Ah yes, a good "forgive horrible people" propaganda. Might need to see a dentist after grinding my teeth for the entire runtime.

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