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  September 5 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I’m a sucker for movies about journalists working to get a story right, and this is a vivid example of that. The details of how the ABC Sports team improvised, from re-wiring phones and smuggling film, to dragging an indoor studio camera outside, are fascinating on their own. What makes the film really hum is the no-nonsense performances of the cast, and some really tight editing that cleverly integrates actual broadcast footage into the film in a way that makes it feel as if it’s happening in real time.

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  Good Boy 2025

  Watched 08 Mar 2025

  This dog is indeed a good boy.

Popular reviews

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 19 May 2024

  This is one of those movies that you have to watch with no pre-conceived ideas of what it’s trying to do or how it’s doing it, and a willingness to accept it on its own terms. At times it’s nostalgic, alienating, baffling, unsettling and deeply moving, sometimes all at once. It took me a while to settle in and be patient as it unfolded, and afterwards I felt unsatisfied with the ending. Then I found myself driving around lost in…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2024

  After a generation of handsome shimmering emo vampires, here's a re-telling of the Dracula story that brings the vampire figure back to what it should be - vile, pestilent, and predatory. This is a real-deal horror movie where evil is evil, horror is horrifying, and the battle isn't so much to be won but survived with your soul intact. Visually, it's stunning. The performances are committed and grounded (even when delivering preposterous dialogue like "She is in congress with the…