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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  Has the ambitious scale, sci-fi premise, and blatant satire of Snowpiercer except with the budget you get after winning four Oscars. The performances are the big selling point here, which works because the story is quite character-driven. Robert Pattinson's range is genuinely remarkable; it feels like he is intentionally seeking new boundaries just so he can break them down. Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette play what is essentially an amalgamation of every evil billionaire you've seen on the news in…

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  A cautionary tale about gambling. Disney quit right before they hit the jackpot — another round of reshoots and I think this would’ve been a perfect 5/5 :)

  A back-to-basics story that goes far too rudimentary, failing both as an isolated story and as a chapter in the Marvel universe. Looks (and feels) like a direct-to-streaming film.

  Sucks because this had the opportunity to say something somewhat interesting or topical given the current political climate in America. Harrison Ford’s strangely apparent earnestness to play the Red Hulk of all characters (???) does nothing to salvage this.

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024

  Robert Eggers is perhaps my favourite modern director yet none of his works have dabbled in subject matter that directly resonated with me. Nosferatu felt like a personal amendment — the shadow-enshrouded cinematography, the gothic costumes, the macabre imagery, and the sensuality of it all felt like carefully orchestrated me-pandering.

  Eggers’ Orlok is inescapable, his plague of malice omnipresent. It truly feels like he is sinking his teeth into this world, suffocating life and instilling chaos. Eggers explores the various…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Nov 2024

  Prior to watching this, I had heard nothing but rave reviews about Anora. Curiously, I had also heard very little about why people liked it to begin with. People seem to resonate strongly with disparate elements of this film simply because it is successful at so many of them. There is no single takeaway here, because Anora cannot be sold in a single sentence. 

  This is probably the funniest film I’ve seen this year whilst simultaneously having some incredibly poignant and…