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  Brazil 1985

  ★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  This looked great. Possibly the most Terry Gilliam Terry Gilliam has ever Terry Gilliam'd.

  There was some good humour in here too. Few surreal but funny moments.

  The pacing though, good God. Less than an hour in, I was struggling. The story really really really drags. Also, the central plot being a "love" story about the most underdeveloped character in the film? I know this was 1985, but it was so shallow! Lowry was lusting after Jill because he'd dreamt…

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  It Ends with Us 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  A Ghost Story 2017

  ½ Watched 02 Oct 2022 3

  I hate films like this.
  Know why?
  Because, even though this film is boring, pretentious wanky nonsense, a whole bunch of people will line up to say it's profound. Inspired. Poignant, and all that bollocks. And worse still, they'll say that anyone who disagrees just doesn't "get it" or doesn't "appreciate art."

  Look, I'm calling it- this film was a monumental waste of my time and I'm actually annoyed that 90 minutes of my life, which I'll never get back,…

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  Zodiac 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Nov 2023

  I first saw this when it hit cinemas in 2007. A group of my high school friends and I caught a screening of it when we were on a post-exams group holiday in the Lake District and promptly scared the shit out of ourselves when we then had to walk home in the dark along secluded country roads, worrying that every passing car contained a potential serial killer.

  I've lost count of how many times I've watched this since that…

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