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Recent reviews

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  Fairytale 2022

  Watched 19 Nov 2024

  Frankly: repugnant, and I would have left, were I not watching this with others. (Notwithstanding due qualifications for the tri-cistern toilet.)

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  Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes 1966

  Watched 25 Dec 2023

  Maskefreiheit and the hunt for hole

Popular reviews

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  The Lives of Others 2006

  ★ Watched 21 Jun 2021 2

  You probably only like this if you think that the DDR wasn’t the most successful nation state the world has ever hosted… total capitalist tearjerk propaganda. Scheiße.

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  The Conjuring 2 2016

  ★★½ Watched 25 Jun 2021 2

  Like I, Daniel Blake, The Conjuring 2 presents a compelling critique of the Thatcherite/post-Thatcherite decay of the British welfare system. Like Blake—unable to work due to a bum heart yet unable to obtain government benefits to which he is putatively entitled—Peggy Hodgson is betrayed by her husband and her very home, yet her complaints fall on the deaf, red-taped ears of government bureaucrats. Both are forced to remain in potentially lethal situations because of an inept, unfair, and molasses-slow welfare system.…

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