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Recent reviews

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  Girl 1998

  ★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  At some point in my life I had watched this, and so I watched it again. One of those films where you remember the first third but you’re not sure how it went because the rest is disposable and forgettable.

  Riding a 90’s high from the first viewing of Linklater’s Suburbia.

  There are points where you feel the script running out of ideas. It throws in and glosses over teen suicide and eating disorders like they are 90’s staples.

  There are points where you feel the voiceover concept challenging. You feel yourself wondering how the acting with change of expressions is done with the voiceovers.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Mickey 17 stylistically evokes 90’s Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet but without the extreme whimsy (which is a good thing). The science-fiction design also reminded me of Silent Running.

  My initial thoughts were that Mickey 17 would be similar to another science-fiction clone film Moon which also had a similar premise of off-world workers.

  General themes include class and compassion for foreign entities so tread similar ground to Bong Jun-Ho’s Snowpiercer and The Host. We also explore ethical considerations of…

Popular reviews

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  Rebel Ridge 2024

  ★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2024

  Somewhere along the way I read this was a “must watch” and saw some other related hype.

  Average crime thriller and nothing special with an overly long run time.

  Initial premise of small town police corruption was an interesting set up but wore thin. The film gets ever more convoluted as it goes along.

  So we get an introduction of the hero being a close combat martial arts expert followed by a nice action sequence. That’s all we really get in terms of martial arts for the whole film.

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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Nov 2024

  The original Gladiator was always interesting to me in that it wasn't something I particularly was "wowed" by in the cinema but it had garnered a lot of Oscar nominations. The effects were noticeable with similar criticisms of historical accuracy.

  Take it all with a grain of salt as this is fiction. This is cinema.

  Ridley Scott has a varied career but one filled with historical pieces and large scale world building that I'd say is unmatched in modern cinema.…