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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★ Watched 05 Jan 2025

  Offensively terrible and terribly offensive.

  I started writing a review but there's just too much bad to talk about that I'm leaving it for now.

  This is the awards darling? This???

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  Grave of the Fireflies 1988

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2025

  This is actually a two hour long film if you include the half an hour of crying and recuperation time you need once it's finished

Popular reviews

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  Don't Look Up 2021

  ★★½ Watched 24 Dec 2021 2

  Adam McKay is like baking powder.

  Am I able to explain what I mean? Uhhh well let's find out -

  You have to be very sure about how you combine it into the mixture. I think The Big Short is nicely-baked (and to a lesser extent so is Vice), because his hectic, exhausting film-making is tempered by the other ingredients, and makes for a well-risen cake. Now this cake might not be a flavour that everyone will like, but for…

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  tick, tick... BOOM! 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Dec 2021

  Man, do you ever just... sit down and find that you're watching 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 the right film at 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 the right time?

  Sometimes that time can be a week, or even a month, when you're in a certain mood - maybe your head's a bit foggy, maybe plans have had to change and then change again... maybe your head's VERY foggy - and you'll decide to watch that film that you've wanted to get around to watching, and you're taken completely…

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