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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  6 years after Parasite’s historic run, Bong Joon-Ho is finally back. I’d been anticipating his follow up & hearing that Robert Pattinson would be the star made me even more excited considering the magnificent run of acting roles that he’s been on in the past half decade or so. While I can’t say that this is one of Bong’s best films, I can say that it still feels uniquely him, characterized by his biting social critique, sudden tonal shifts, hilarious moments…

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  After this won Best Animated Film at the Oscars I just had to check this out. Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film from Latvia before this, so I was really interested to see how the storytelling would be different compared to the traditional American animated film & I definitely wasn’t disappointed in that aspect.

  I really loved the way this film managed to so effectively communicate even without any dialogue. It’s rare you see an animated film where…

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  Monkey Man 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Apr 2024

  At Monkey Man’s debut at SXSW, first time director & star Dev Patel stated that the action genre had “sometimes been abused by the system.” We’re in a time where action films not only are just pumped out regularly by the industry machine, but even the good ones are largely ignored by award season. It’s unfortunate really, but a film like Monkey Man was necessary to change this & it’s an impressive first statement from someone we’ve seen grow into one of…

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  This is a film I’ve genuinely seen nothing like. I didn’t think I’d really be able to say something like that in 2025 but director RaMell Ross has really created something absolutely special with this film, even more impressive considering it’s his only his second film & the first being a documentary. This beautifully tragic story of two black teenagers at a reform school during the 1960s transcends from being your regular yearly Oscar-fishing treatise on racism into a wholly unique…

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