Recent reviews

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  Yi Yi 2000

  ★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  Excruciatingly slow, unnecessarily long and deeply deeply boring. There were a few nice shots but not worth the slog of 3 hours.

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  Fair Play 2023

  ★ Watched 28 Dec 2023

  It was interesting until 20mins from the end when it totally betrayed itself and became a stupid film not worth watching to the end.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jul 2023

  Why do all Chris Nolan films all feel like 3 hour montages? 
  He’s really trying to win a best director Oscar with this one.

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  Infinity Pool 2023

  ★★ Watched 26 Mar 2023

  First half was very interesting. Then it loses its sense of direction (I.e. got boring) in the second half. Cinematography was better executed than the story. It felt like the film was trying too hard and in the end didn’t manage to say an awful lot that other film/tv hasn’t done more fluently and economically (Triangle of Sadness, White Lotus). But nothing about this film is about economy. In an era where most films in the cinema are action franchises, it is refreshing to see something this bizzare but all in all it felt self-indulgent.

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