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Recent reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Aug 2023

  Nolan has a way of complicating every story into a multitude of different segments, like the structure of an onion, which he does in Oppenheimer as well, resulting in a hectic and exhausting first half hour. There so many different time segments intertwined and there is non stop dialogue of tons of different characters. 
  Through this structure though, Nolan achieves not only hectic, but also tension and speed, setting the mood for a thriller. If that would have been necessary…

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  Pope Joan 2009

  ★★½ Watched 08 Oct 2022

  When I watch movies like Pope Joan I wonder where the quality of german movies has gone. Germany was once the origin of groundbreaking cinema with the most innovative and breathtaking movies. Now movies like Pope Joan mean such a financial challenge that the producers saw no other option than to produce a two part miniseries for TV alongside the feature. For criticising those plans initial director Volker Schlöndorff was fired and replaced with Sönke Wortmann, a filmmaker who nowadays…

Popular reviews

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  Coming In 2014

  ★ Watched 13 Jun 2021

  This film is disgusting. A gay person suddenly finds out that he is straight and is confronted with a bunch of LGBTQ people against him. What the fuck???

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  State Funeral 2019

  ★★½ Watched 30 Dec 2020

  This is great stunning impressive archival footage and it is so very interesting to be able to see it. It is like you open a time capsule to another dimension, or another world and I was impressed by it. You can somehow come near to understand the cult following Stalin.
  BUT the presentation of this footage as a documentary film is clumsy. Moreover I would say, this is not a real documentary film it is just the documentation of Stalins…