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  Full Moon in Paris 1984

  Watched 18 Mar 2025 1

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

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  Queer 2024

  Watched 12 Mar 2025

  The kind of movie you want to head back into the cinema and have another go at as soon as it's over.

  Some tonal dissonance for me between the first half and the jungle sequence, but that's the kind of thing a second watch will clear up.

  Affected me in ways I'm not sure I fully understand yet.

Popular reviews

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  Remarkable film. It brings me so much joy to have new Lynch work to experience despite his death last month.

  Fire Walk with Me is deeply upsetting, but its horror comes not from exploitation or an opportunistic approach to Laura's experiences, the pain comes from how much we are made to understand what Laura has been through. I was so scared throughout that I needed to pause it every ten minutes or so. Lynch's total empathy for Laura is truly…

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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 25 Sep 2024 1

  not without its entertainment in the way that the prequels are not without their entertainment. seriously, this film is like if the prequels had no pre-established characters or setting to work with. adam driver does his best and is undeniably charismatic. jason schwartzman charms with a little drum fill. grace vanderwaal provides one of the films only moments of genuinely effective satire. despite being a creep in real life shia lebouf is somehow woefully unable to bring anything interesting to…

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