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  • The Substance

    ★★½

  • Civil War

    ★½

  • Our Kind of Traitor

  • The Hours

    ★★

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★½

    For a movie that lasts 141 minutes, there isn’t much development of the premise beyond what you already know about it going into the film.

  • Our Kind of Traitor

    Our Kind of Traitor

    Lightweight

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  • Glass Onion

    Glass Onion

    ½

    I liked Knives Out and had this lined up for Christmas Eve so was disappointed by how it turned out. Jokes don’t land, dialogue is scatterbrained, I didn’t care for any of the new characters, setting/special effects are too over the top and it lacked the charm of the original.

  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★½

    A rare, beautiful film that left a profound impression. 

    I spent about two thirds of the film wondering where it was leading. We are presented with the banal, humdrum experiences of a young Scottish father and his eleven year old daughter on a low-budget, package holiday at a Turkish resort. This is interspersed with their camcorder footage from the holiday (the movie is set in the 90s with a suitable soundtrack) and ethereal, dream-like sequences from a rave. The significance…

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