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  Leviathan 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Elephant 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Relentless filmmaking from a relentless artist, elephant is the uncompromising and uniquely watchable political effort, unpretentious, just the effortless made guttural. Little dialogue save for a few lines of the undiagnosable,  the diegetic sound occasionally broken up by the reverberating sound of gunshots, punctuated by the cameras lingering on the deceased, we’re made complicit in the mundane act of killing, following the killers with a detachment thanks to the searching steadicam footage. Acts of killing committed in the most recognisable…

Popular reviews

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  Bait 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Sep 2020

  Could go down as one of British cinemas defining moments of the last 15 years.

  This is such a marvel of storytelling and technical prowess.

  Some of these images rival anything I’ve seen before on celluloid. Everything is a painting or a photograph, everything is simultaneously old and new.

  The story is old and new but is given to the audience as something timely and everlasting.

  This is like everyone is speaking a different language, no one person can hear the other, not really. 

  And if there’s a villain it’s Hugo and his scummy lot from the richer fields of london. Insufferable twat.

  “Shit pub anyway”

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Aug 2018 3

  Seen this abar 5 times since the cinema. Gonna say it and ya can hate me for it. But just as good as the original, maybe better. 

  That’s right.

  Come and get me demons.