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Recent reviews

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  Drive Back Home 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Seemed like it would be fairly typical adult drama festival fare from the summary (not necessarily a negative! I'm often a fan of those films when they're done well) and it honestly doesn't do a whole lot different than expected except for the willingless to really look at violent community homophobia without any flinching. The two lead performances are fantastic at conveying familial love and more particularly that familiarity, the ability to really tap into someone else's wavelength even if…

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  The Muleteer 2024

  ★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Beautifully shot coming of age period drama about a queer teenager in the Jalisco hills,that doesn't quite fully engage with its themes of patriachal violence and familial relationships. The learned violence and assumption of dominance by the brother was well realised, but I felt there was a degree of shallowness in regards to the other such figures in Emilia and Caro's life (and a curious lack of interest by the film as to their relationship with Emilia's adopted mother). Emilia's…

Popular reviews

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  The Breaker Upperers 2018

  ★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2019 2

  The NZ film industry is 16 people and they're all best friends

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  A Very English Scandal 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Jul 2018 3

  I thought this would be a bit of fun but every time Ben Whishaw cried it was like watching a particularly fragile forest creature get stomped on