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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  Watching this at the Barbican was a delight

Popular reviews

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  Monkey Man 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Apr 2024

  Dev Patel is Brown Bond.

  I really wanted to like this more than I did.

  The protagonist’s motivations aren’t properly explained until much too late on and the political narrative is never fully explored bc the film trying to do too much - in trying to ally with every marginalised group, it fails to nail a core message.
  Also minus one star for the shaky GoPro footage (ick).

  That said - Dev Patel is superb. After watching his interviews and…