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  1917 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 03 Sep 2020

  Absolute masterpiece of cinematography. Almost flawless from a technical point of view. 

  Shame about the stars detracting from otherwise all-round brilliance throughout.

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  Shutter Island 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Aug 2020

  At the end of the film I always love it. It gets better up to and including the third watch, but that’s probably max rewatch. 

  All the misdirects are very clever, but it becomes a little much in the middle.

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  13th 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2020

  This documentary blew my mind in the first 30 seconds and then gave me an existential crisis for the next 90 minutes. 

  From a technical perspective it’s fine, the content is undeniably important. Everyone has to watch this film.

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  The Spy Who Loved Me 1977

  ★★★ Watched 08 May 2020

  This should have been good. 

  Great double storyline with Stronberg’s great evil plan of drowning the world from his epic sea-lair, and Bond working together with his Russian female counterpart Agent XXX whose lover he killed at the top of the movie. AND they had Jaws, they had the pyramids... they had so much! 

  Perfect premise on paper. 

  Only thing that ruined it was the movie itself. Really disappointed how badly they sold-out the female protagonist by making her practically…

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