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  When Harry Met Sally... 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Nov 2023

  "I can't do this anymore, I am not your consolation prize."
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  "I've been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is... I love you."
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  Birth 2004

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 06 Nov 2023

  The film opens with a lengthy, elevated tracking shot through a central park rendered black and white by winter snow. The camera follows a jogger down the park's icy paths before a title card appears and the perspective shifts; he is shown arriving in the shadows of a tunnel where he slows, stops and falls to his knees. Following this apparent death, a birth, as a new-born child is shown being lifted from the waters of a birthing pool.

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  Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021

  ★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2021 1

  Not seen the theatrical cut. Is it just this version, but with every slo-mo shot sped up to normal speed?

  Random thoughts;

  - marvel films seem to aim for 'fun' and 'exciting', and I enjoy their interpretation of those things. DC films seem to aim for 'cool' and 'epic', and I do not enjoy their interpretation of those things

  - visually, the film mainly reminded me of the kind of superhero fan art that gets made into garish 4k desktop…

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  Nowhere Special 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Jul 2021

  The premise of this one is a heartbreaker, and director Uberto Pasolini knows it - he is thankfully restrained in his work, letting the scenario itself do the heavy lifting, and allowing James Norton to quietly but forcefully inhabit the role of a terminally ill single father searching for a suitable home for his watchful 4 year old son. Norton is great. You see the toll taken on this man in small gestures; a certain set of the eyes, a…