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Recent reviews

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  Beats 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Aug 2019

  Takes a while to find its rhythm (ha) but when it finds its groove (haha) it’s a pretty good film about friendship and surprisingly bittersweet.

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  Port Authority 2019

  ★★★ Watched 01 Aug 2019

  Proves that neat direction, an interesting world and timely ideas can’t save underwritten characters and an uninteresting protagonist.

Popular reviews

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  Vai 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 May 2019

  In their follow up to 2017's Waru, Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton have gathered a small army of incredible female Pasifika filmmakers for Vai - an emotionally profound piece of work that is unlike anything I've ever seen onscreen.

  Told in what is essentially eight vignettes, Vai explores the various stages in which Vai comes of age - as a young girl to a young woman to an elder. Each vignette features a different version, so to speak, of Vai…

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  Genesis 2018

  ★½ Watched 20 Jul 2019

  Can’t remember the last film I saw that had this much contempt and hatred for its characters. A thoroughly unpleasant watch.

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