30th anniversary screening happens to be my first time watching this masterpiece on the big screen. My eardrums are still rattling from the gunshots. Thank you, Michael Mann.
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Lion 2016
Down the middle but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't moved to tears several times; that is until I heard Sia, which really took me out of what had been a fairly restrained and uncommercial film up to that point. I always think films like this would be better served without the ceremonious 'this really happened' ending, but given this is one of the most incredible true stories ever I'll make an exception, and those final images restored…
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Civil War 2024
Absolutely stunned by this. There's a beautiful irony to the way in which Civil War, a film about how divided we have become, is dividing audiences for not making an overt political statement; it wields its apoliticism (or rather non-partisanship) as a weapon and in so doing becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Anyone up in arms over Alex Garland making a thoughtful film rather than a didactic one is only highlighting the necessity of a film like this. At the very…
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