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  Three Colours: Blue 1993

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  The feeling of dragging your knuckles against a stone wall. The sun shining on your face. The way the sugar cube soaks up your coffee. The way pool water masks your tears. The music blaring in your head.

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  On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  After seeing Rungano Nyoni’s stunning debut feature I Am Not a Witch at TIFF ‘17, I’ve been chomping at the bit to see what she would do next and with this she’s delivered something equally as funny, heartbreaking and wholeheartedly confrontational with a righteous rage. Its subtle absurdist humor helps lift the horrifying core of this that looks at how cultures of tradition make way for abuse and prejudice to be codified. This cuts through because Nyoni refuses to allow…

Popular reviews

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  Thor: Ragnarok 2017

  ★½ Watched 02 Nov 2017 23

  I'm not really sure how to say this without sounding like I have some sort of anti Marvel Studios agenda or that I just hate having fun but.....Thor: Ragnarok is one of the worst, most profoundly annoying superhero films I've seen.

  Let's just start with the problems that I've had with the MCU, in general, that bleed over into this film. First off: this film, conceptually, has some of the biggest stakes that have ever been in an MCU film,…

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  The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Oct 2017 2

  "I Love You,
  I Forgive You,
  Forgive Me,
  Thank You,
  Goodbye."

  (^Those were also the exact words that the grief counselor told me to say when my father, whom I had a very difficult relationship with, was dying)

  Goddamnit, he did it! Baumbach fucking did! He peaked here. Any filmmaker should wish that their peak could be this fucking amazing.

  I expected greatness but I didn't expect catharsis on this level. The Meyerowitz Stories is Baumbach's most mature, most humane,…