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  • Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

  • Monster

    ★★★★★

  • American Fiction

    ★★★★★

  • Saltburn

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

    Is this a dramatic version of Life of Brian? He is not the messiah, he is a very naughty boy!!

  • Monster

    Monster

    ★★★★★

    Such a beautiful film. The first half an hour I thought this was going to be another movie about bullying, abuse or maybe something more sinister. By the end I was convinced this was a coming-of-age piece. However, after a few hours, the complexities brought about by the narrative structure of the film come to light. The three perspectives (mother, teacher and boy) the movie is narrated from tell about how easily we can be deceived by preconceived ideas and…

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  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    Such a boring pretentious movie! what’s the point in it? That some lower middle class people will do anything to plot their way up the social scale? That the old privileged aristocracy are a bunch of funny naive eccentrics who will fall pray to any manipulative social climber? It’s all too outdated pre-French revolution nostalgia.

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    ★★★★½

    Nolan's fascination with obsessive haunted men looking to understand themselves reaches a peak here. Cillian Murphy's character seems to perfectly encapsulate Nolan's need to immerse and even overwhelm the viewer with his intellectual dilemmas and moral conflicts. And he does so brilliantly, inundating us with disturbing chilling images and deafening silences. Murphy's interpretation is intense and accomplished. He will probably get his Oscar, RDJ maybe too. I missed, however, a little more development of the female characters. Blunt and Pugh…

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