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  The Critic 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I know he's a national treasure, but I wonder if directors are too scared to tell Ian McKellen that's he's being too ripe.

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  Opus 2025

  ★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  It's basically Midsommar but *really* dumb. On the plus side, the fake pop songs are bangers.

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ½ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  What an alchemist Kevin Feige is, to take $180 million and turn it into purest dog shit. For the price of 18 Brutalists you get weightless CGI, witless dialogue, a plot that goes all over the world but is artlessly shot in murky corridors - oh, and clearly wasn't filmed at the same time. Giancarlo Esposito appears to have been bussed in from another film entirely.

  Its greatest crime: probably the worst Harrison Ford performance of all time. I wanted to look away, I felt so embarrassed for the guy struggling to make anything on this thin gruel.

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Might take a moment to process this one, but a seriously moving piece of work. Because my brain has been ruined through years of game playing I found it quite hard to get out of FPS mode at times. And maybe there is a slight contrived artificiality to the perspective, so perfectly framing and capturing the moment. But the time hopping and dreamy interruptions mean it isn't necessarily meant to read as literal documentary. And in a year where trauma…

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