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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Sci fi at its best is the most nuanced and effective medium for tackling larger-than-life subjects; this is as short-sighted and shallow as a satirical newspaper comic strip. And I bet it will have the longevity of one. Uninterested in its own themes and therefore completely uninteresting.

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★ Added

  I Saw the TV Glow is a film about seeing and being seen. In particular, it's about the chilling awareness of being seen when one cannot see themselves. It’s a film about those who find it easier to see themselves in fictional products than in reality, and the power fictional products have to show us ourselves in return. In the words of Jane Schoenbrun, the 37-year-old transgender and non-binary New York-based director*, it is a "film about looking," as "the…

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  The Nightingale 2018

  ★ Watched 06 Sep 2018 7

  I have to admit that I was extremely disappointed by The Nightingale. It's overlong, boring and predictable. The writing sucks, every character is a stereotype with no depth and it's full of cliches and useless scenes. It's needlessly violent (there were even a few walkouts) to the point that after an hour or so it became completely uneffective. The cinematography is inconsistent and the 4:3 aspect ratio serves no purpose at all. Everything is surface level, nothing is left to…

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  Last Night in Soho 2021

  ★ Watched 09 Nov 2021 2

  No amount of neon lights and camera tricks can make up for the awful, awful mess Last Night in Soho is, also because if you take out the scenes from the trailer it is a surprisingly and risibly ugly movie. Not one part of it works, not one character feels even remotely real. It’s never funny and never scary. It’s even incapable of setting an atmosphere. I was perplexed from start to finish by what is just an impressive showcase…

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