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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2025 2

  there’s nothing that tickles my fancy
  quite like a cheeky chimpanzee 
  I’ve been blown away
  on this Valentine’s Day
  Robbie Williams: my monkey fiancée 

  
  (I don’t know where to begin honestly! who would’ve thought the Robbie Williams monkey movie had so much painstaking effort put into its visual presentation and storytelling?? I’m moved to tears

   a shocking amount of bold and vulnerable choices were made here. a genuinely upsetting and unsettling chimp battle royale in which Robbie kills himself multiple…

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  this film feels real - true to its name
  though viewing was far from a pain
  through Poland they wander
  it leaves me to wonder 
  are these men changed, or the same?

  (Kieran Culkin kills it and Jesse Eisenberg evidently has a promising directorial career ahead of him.

  living up to its name, this is a very ‘real’ movie. the tour group feels very real - I appreciated of the characters within it - and as such the uncomfortable moments…

Popular reviews

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  Killer Bean Forever 2008

  ★ Watched 11 Jun 2024

  this is the tale of a bean 
  who’s a crime-fighting, killing machine.
  oh the armies he’ll sweep
  if he can’t get his sleep;
  it’s the greatest film I’ve ever seen

  
  (this is one of the most difficult ratings I’ve given to a film. to be clear I loved it. I love the absurd action, the genuinely funny dialog - shoutout to the “double flusher” joke - and the way beans just address each other as “bean”. but it’s also extremely…

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Jun 2024

  a ‘racket’ is caused when zendaya
  gets ‘court’ between two tennis players
  in this game there’s no winners
  cause they’re all dirty sinners 
  and they’re just getting greyer and greyer

  
  (very close to being a 5 star for me wow

  the structure of this film is so genius - ping-ponging back and forth, gradually converging into the climactic match….. much like a tennis ball!!! love how that match is recontextualised as the film progresses, the stakes growing higher and higher as you…

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