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  • All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

    ★★★

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★★

  • Past Lives

    ★★★★★

  • Black Girl

    ★★★★★

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  • All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

    All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

    ★★★

    I wanted to love this film so bad. I’m so happy it exists - gorgeous, tender, non linear heart filling and breaking, and there’s love in this film, which also means there is loss. 

    BUT… I was bored and I hate to admit it, but it felt more suited to another way of viewing. Perhaps in an art context, multi-channel full immersive filmic experience. As opposed to on this tiny airplane screen. 

    I just watched nickel boys and I was…

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★★

    Everything and more. 

    Thank you!

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  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★★

    Thank you, Colson Whithead and now RaMell Ross. 

    The POV was refreshing and the dismissal of linearity wonderful. 

    Heartbreaking, and necessary watch, I sobbed and sobbed at the end. 

    It makes me think a lot about the state of the world in 2025. 

    Oh and the music, Ethiopian jazz after Turner tells at Elwood to run in a zig zag. Perhaps jazz is zig zag music. Exactly.

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    ★★★★★

    Beautifully done. Composition, lighting. The performance by the electrician was incredible. This gives me renewed hope in Nigerian cinema - more of this. Bravo!

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