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  The Gorge 2025

  ★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  I went into this with low expectations, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the first half of the film with its intriguing set up turning into a meet-cute between two snipers across a vast gorge. I thought Taylor-Joy and Teller played off each other nicely (even the amusing nods to their most noteworthy roles in The Queen’s Gambit and Whiplash, respectively).

  Alas, by the second half it devolved into the usual clichés and said low expectation were…

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Genuinely one of the finest examples of modern science-fiction; Villeneuve expertly blends together themes of loss, time, grief, and communication to create an intelligent film that quietly focuses in on the human aspect. At the centre of all this is Amy Adams, in the magnum opus of her acting career, giving a gently understated and emotive performance as a linguistics professor and mother dealing with the loss of her daughter. Alongside her is Jeremy Renner’s scientist in a more light-hearted…

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  Wolfs 2024

  ★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Pitt and Clooney reunite their easy chemistry, but Watts is no Soderbergh and the thin plot and hackneyed cliches do the star power on hand a complete disservice.

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  The Beautiful Person 2008

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  ‘Beautiful French people being sad and living messy lives’ is my favourite genre.

  Also, the gays really have it in for Ester Garrel.

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