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  Ema 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  A strange case of a film which makes little to no sense until its final few minutes. Gael García struggles to play a bad guy, and does not convince as a choreographer except in the vitriolic anti-reggaeton speech (which is hilarious, and quickly refuted for a metaphor about fucking, and then subsumed by a montage of fucking). It's unclear why everyone should be "done with [Ema's] bullshit" — she seems all right. Can't blame a girl for being hot. Bit…

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  Waves 2024

  ★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  A textureless attempt to tell an interesting story. Every item of clothing, every prop, every clean-shaven face seems freshly minted to the point where it's so distracting from what little is happening on screen that the vast majority of Waves is as ephemeral as waves on the ocean. There's an inspired middle chunk which plays out the events of the 20th August 1968, the one date which seems necessary among the many title cards. Finally focused, Radio Prague (as it's…

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  Shambhala 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2024

  Every bit as beautiful and as loving as it appeared to be in promo photography. Shambhala takes the necessary time to ease us into Pema's life, and her community in the Himalayas. When the title card drops at the 50-minute mark, I was excited to see a Himalayan Drive My Car, which for better or worse is an expectation which doesn't completely align with the gentle love and gossipy stakes that Min Badahur Bham centres, even if we get the…

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  Jurassic World Dominion 2022

  ★½ Watched 07 Jun 2022

  An interminable crock of shit.

  The moments of Ian Malcolm's incredulity are as close as we get to charm. Every action sequence refuses to orient the viewer, to their great discomfort. The returned orig' tridge cast throw into sharp relief how poor company Owen and Claire have been.

  I'm as happy as anyone that Malta got its first Hollywood dollar since Popeye, but that entire sequence was an unnecessary delay to the fun of assembling the dino avengers. With this…