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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  this one resonated with me rather personally.
  really sticks with you, glad gave it some time to simmer after seeing it before giving a rating.

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  Companion 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  first and foremost this film is *funny*

  yes there are layers to dig into, yes, there are swaths of social commentary and essays to be mined from this text.

  but it's such a fucking darkly FUNNY film, and that's what makes the overall experience WORK.

Popular reviews

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  Kingsman: The Secret Service 2014

  ★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2015 4

  Solid (yet well worn) ideas, decent script, good actors, funny jokes, and well directed action sequences.
  Sounds like pretty much a win for your average Hollywood blockbuster, right? Wrong.

  Kingsman: The Secret Service is the latest directorial effort of Matthew Vaughn, who gave us X:Men: First Class and Kick-Ass. I haven't seen the former, but the latter shares quite a bit with the latter. The swearing, the jokes, the fight sequences, and the balance of comedy and action, and that's…

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  High and Low 1963

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2014 1

  I don't even know if I can hold all my thoughts, this may have been the best crime film I've ever seen, and definitely the best police procedural I've seen. Right from the word go it sucks you in and hold you there, for some reason the way everything unfolded was so meticulous. Every thing was perfect, even the balance of tense conversations and even more nail biting field scenes.

  For some reason my favourite scene might be in the…

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