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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2024

  Thousands of words forthcoming

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  Brick 2005

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2024

  I had thought my teenage recollection of it couldn't be trusted but through all the super fun noir artifice, the film becomes a quite moving tale about how that stuff that is dismissively thought of as “high school shit” really follows us even if we run away from it.

Popular reviews

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  Morvern Callar 2002

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Oct 2023

  Lynne Ramsay makes dreams out of nightmares. The story of Morvern Callar, who claims her boyfriend's book manuscript as her own following his suicide, sounds sordid and edgy but this film is actually tender, angry, achingly sad and yet joyous affirmative that life is still possible. Samantha Morton’s performance as Morvern is what sells this as through subtlety and quiet intensity she slides between these states, which makes visible the psychic instability of a concrete trauma. The crackling sound design…

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  Eyes Wide Shut 1999

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Sep 2023

  Life is pretty great if you have managed to acquire all the things that should give you the status and power to make other people (men) think your life is pretty great. But wait, what if one of those things, your wife, turns out not be a thing but a subject with desires of her own?! Well then, she could be free to desire anything she wants! Including other people. And other people exist and aren't you! You could lose…

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