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  Swallowed 2022

  ★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Pretty awful all around. Doesn’t follow through on any element of its premise. Everyone’s waving around guns, screaming and over-acting with such importance you’d think this was a student film, not one from an industry veteran.

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  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  Ingmar Bergman’s Bridget Jones and the Owl of Death. 🦉💀

Popular reviews

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  The Baby of Mâcon 1993

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2019 3

  Famine has ravaged the town of 16th century Mâcon, France. There’s no food, people are dying, women are barren. The end seems near, but then a miracle happens: an elderly woman (that the city unfortunately finds grotesque) delivers a son! However her grown daughter (still a virgin, she says) claims the child as her own - born through immaculate conception. It’s a miracle from God and thus the plague on Mâcon is lifted.

  Or, this could all be just a…

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  Boris Godounov 1989

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Jul 2018 7

  This film is an astonishing triumph. Opera, being a notoriously difficult art form to adapt to film, is given a flawless treatment here because Zulawski never waivers from his main goal - to make this cinematic.

  Zulawski does this by constructing a film that’s as large as the emotions opera dictates. It’s filled with massive and indulgent sets and costumes. Typical for his films, his environments are textured, lived in and weathered. They don’t feel like sets but living spaces.…

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