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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Nov 2024

  Brilliant and doesn't feel like a 2 and a half hour film at all.
  This film had an appropriate balance of grimace worthy gore (it is the Romans after all) and emotionally impactful scenes.
  Great background to main characters and Macrinus had beautifully told and engaging character development.
  
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  The only scene I didn't buy was when Lucius spoke with Lucilla in the cells after Acacius' death. It seemed like a miraculous change of heart, motive and a complete eradication…

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  Ticket to Paradise 2022

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jul 2024

  One line: I physically, morally and emotionally could not choose between Lucas Bravo and George Clooney

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  The Crow 1994

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jun 2024

  Incredible. Wonderfully shot action scenes.
  Necessarily gruesome killings for both sides, without it being over the top.
  Couldn't look away

  One line: Lawfully good joker

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  Thoroughbreds 2017

  ★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2024

  A deliberately slightly unsettling, but completely unsurprising film.
  Prolonged shots or a shift of focus built tension around the two main characters, two disturbed girls, but for different reasons. The choice of music added to a hunter-prey atmosphere which was one of the most enjoyable parts of the film. 
  Good storyline; the explicit fate of the horse felt necessary to include to ground the girls fantasy in reality. I think predictable nature of the plot meant that you resonated with…

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