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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  An incredible piece of filmmaking with ridiculously good performances across the board. Every episode is riveting and gut-wrenching in completely different ways, including the last 20 minutes and final scene which just completely wrecked me. In awe of how the cast and crew pulled this one off. Genius.

  9/10

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  pretty good but imperfect. The tone is kind of darkly silly, it's very funny in moments and the main cast are uniformly excellent - Ruffalo and Collette eat every scene they're in - and the writing is generally good despite a few cringe-inducing lines.

  But it lacks any real big budget blockbuster appeal (despite good production design and some nice cinematography), and crucially the film is overlong with an underdeveloped story and themes, which just hamstring it to the upper bounds of mediocrity.

  6.5/10

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  Blink Twice 2024

  ★★★ Watched 04 Sep 2024

  6.5/10
  
  Excellent opening 20 minutes, followed by a massive slump in the 2nd act, followed by an enjoyable 3rd act and a lazy ending. Kind of similar in style to Get Out but about sexism and misogyny instead of racism.

  Overall some really good ideas and some interesting cinematography and sound design but many of ideas (and characters) were left half-baked and the film's execution was generally inconsistent, belying Zoe Kravitz's status as a first time director. Still an enjoyable film and an impressive debut; I'm interested to see where she goes with her next project.

  6.5/10

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★★★ Watched 08 Sep 2024 1

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

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