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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2025

  One of the best biopics I’ve seen for a while. It gets almost everything right and the musical numbers are excellently done.

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  Origin 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2024

  The film’s focus on the similarities between different systems of oppression and discrimination is very compelling at times but the dumbing down of key messages reduces its overall impact in my view.

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2024

  The Zone of Interest is a masterpiece in the use of subtlety to convey the horrifying reality of its historical backdrop. 

  The film does a phenomenal job of juxtaposing the mundane pleasantness of a mid-20th century suburban family with the atrocities upon which their quaint livelihood is built. 

  Despite the actual events of the film being relatively routine, the context of what is happening off-screen in the next door Auschwitz concentration camp means you are constantly on edge and the…

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