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  Flow 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  The bits where the cat is doing famous cat things are probably a bit 90 min cat video compilation but this is very cute and likeable. If only more animated films with animals had the bottle to go dialogue free, we’d be in a great place. Refreshing lack of world building lore explanations! Capybara MVP here, one of the nicest characters of the year.

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  When Fall Is Coming 2024

  ★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  Certainly better than Ozon’s last film, there are at least moments that suggest something potentially interesting here but this has to be one of the most strangely plotted films I’ve seen in ages. The whole exercise seems designed for a tension & intrigue that the director seems to be actively rejecting. We’re not really left in the dark about anyone’s motivations, their actions & or even their potential consequences. It’s all just there on screen, sometimes just moments after the question is…

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  Da 5 Bloods 2020

  ★★ Watched 12 Jul 2020 3

  An absolute mess. 

  There’s so much potential here with Lee, Lindo, Peters, Whitlock Jr, Majors & Hauser, I can’t tell whether Lee had his worst excesses indulged by an eager to please online distributor or whether those indulgences were what led to Netlfix picking this up. 

  Lindo is certainly good, even if his late monologues don’t always land. You can always rely on Lee to deliver the big non-fiction montages, like the one that opens the film. And the minefield sequence…

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  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  ★ Watched 16 Jan 2020

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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