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Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  This script is so tight and contained. Loved it.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  Like millions across the world, Bob Dylan is my ultimate. My favourite artist of all time and it's not even close. Going into A Complete Unknown I know had to keep my bias out of my view of the film. And now upon my 2nd viewing I thought was the best time to review it.

  When the movie was first announced my initial reaction to Timothee Chalamet portraying Dylan was "yeah good call", and absolutely fair fucks to him because…

Popular reviews

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2015

  My heart hasn't beated out my chest like that for a film in a long long time. Thanks for that Damian Chazelle. I don't mean that sarcastically either.

  JK Simmons deserves every award that's coming to him and then some. What a fuckin' performance. But Miles Teller shouldn't be forgotten, an outstanding performance from him also.

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  Nightcrawler 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2014

  Nightcrawler is a progression. The longer the film goes on the better it gets, with Jake Gyllenhaal's excellent performance as Lou Bloom the same. But it is also a progression of Lou Bloom, to rise from the bottom to the top and will do anything to get there, it's quite mesmerizing.

  Jake Gyllenhaal has certainly given one of the performances of the year and he has created a character that I'm sure will be remembered for a long time. There…

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