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Recent reviews

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  André is an Idiot 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Fantastic

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  I liked this. Understated and beautiful. A bit too woody Allen-ey for me stylistically, but that’s just my taste

Popular reviews

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  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

  ½ Watched 17 Nov 2023

  What a fucking disaster. Bad script and directing underpinned by Rachel Zegler’s catastrophic “acting.” Whenever she attempts to show emotion, she just contorts her face in bizarre ways. It’s one of the most theatrical and off-putting performances i’ve seen in a blockbuster in a long time. I think she’s quite good in more elevated films like musicals, but here the performance had me giggling throughout the movie 

  Viola Davis was great!

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  Strange Darling 2023

  ½ Watched 21 Sep 2024

  I’m baffled by the positive reviews. This is a self-indulgent, meaningless nightmare of a film. If you can make it past the avalanche of title cards, including “shot entirely on 35 mm film,” you’ll find a predictable, boring, 90 minute ride

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