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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  A solid and stylish espionage puzzle. David Koepp’s brainy screenplay is in reliable hands with director Soderbergh, whose slick and pared-back direction is always fascinating.

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  Maria 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  Biopics are rarely taken seriously anymore but Maria deserves to be. From Angelina Jolie's staggering performance to the bravura production design and cinematography, Pablo Larraín has delivered a film with so much to appreciate.

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  The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Dec 2021 1

  The most meaningless and purely commercial thing Spielberg has ever directed. Still, his total mastery of the form and endless creativity put this leagues ahead of anything being done in blockbuster filmmaking today.

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  Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  Not as laugh a minute as The Curse of the Were-Rabbit but still utterly delightful. Has a fun finale that’s reminiscent of Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Feathers McGraw is as eerily sinister as ever.

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