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  Paddington in Peru 2024

  ½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  What a piece of shit. PADDINGTON 2 might have briefly dislodged CITIZEN KANE, but this is only likely to trouble RETURN OF THE JEDI or THE RISE OF SKYWALKER.

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  Nature 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Holy fuck.
  It's on youtube but you'll want to see it on as big a screen as you can manage.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Sep 2024

  BARBIE meets SEVERANCE meets ALL ABOUT EVE/SHOWGIRLS/BLACK SWAN meets Ti West's X trilogy meets THE FLY/THE THING/ALTERED STATES/BASKETCASE/SOCIETY meets Barbara Creed on the monstrous-feminine meets Roger Luckhurst on corridor dread. But the real touch of genius is the fleeting use of the VERTIGO music.

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  Mr. & Mrs. Smith 1941

  ★★½ Rewatched 18 Feb 2025

  Thank god for his historical pictures, otherwise romantic comedy would be Hitchcock's weakest genre.

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