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Recent reviews

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  Drive Back Home 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  BIFF Film #5 (sorry, Four Mothers—you conflicted with the Big 10 Championship Game)

  Touching and funny. Charlie Creed-Miles was exceptional, and his character’s progression felt very natural. Cumming was also great—the actors had wonderful chemistry. And the backdrop of a sparse Canadian winter worked really well for me. There were some absolutely gorgeous shots.

  There are a few moments where the film seems to go a bit too over the top that felt very jarring; while the message of those scenes was important, it verged on being too much. But it’s a sweet film. J'adore les pétoncles.

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  Waves 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  BIFF Film #4

  God, this goes so hard. I think I might just like “history from the perspective of journalists” stories, though, but this tells a really interesting story in a very cool way. Performances and direction are great, and it flows nicely (aside from maybe a moment or two that feel weird, though the beginning says there’s some factual basis so maybe those things actually happened).

  I had a great time. Czech this out for sure.

Popular reviews

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  A Christmas Wedding Tail 2011

  ★ Watched 06 Dec 2023

  At the end of the film, Rusty alludes to a sequel. That’s not a promise, that’s a threat

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  Paris Is Burning 1990

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Nov 2023

  I HATE documentaries. Always have. I hate their random inclusion of celebrities who weren’t really involved to give their opinion on the matter. I hate that, while they may show footage of events as they happened, the “narration” is all done separately, so the subjects have had time to process the events and, in some sense, “script” what they’re going to say to the crew. I hate that they often focus on already well-known historical events instead of choosing to…

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