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  Rogue Agent 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Nov 2024

  Writers-directors Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn do a brilliant job of bringing their absorbing screenplay to life. James Norton is outstanding as the protagonist Robert Freegard, based on the real-life swindler Freegard. Good cast, editing, soundtrack, cinematography.

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  Longlegs 2024

  ½ Watched 10 Nov 2024

  Richard Lawson is probably the only critic who is truthful and scathing, amid a horde of critics fawning over this film. He describes writer-director Osgood Perkins's inexcusably silly "Longlegs" with bone-chilling accuracy, "A grueling collage of far better films...follows roughly the same plot until it spins off into something far sillier...a...patchwork imbued with zero meaning of its own...(that looks) ...more like a mess of spaghetti hurled against the wall...in the realm of dull nonsense...vacuous...We should perhaps have known that things were going to get dumb the…

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  Rob Roy 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Jan 2021

  "Rob Roy" (1995) is a classic.

  Don't worry about the historical accuracy, the faithfulness to accents, or lack of it. Drink long and deep of this lovingly made masterpiece for what it is: a sweeping 18th century Scottish epic about all the good things - love, honor, truth, courage, loyalty.

  Perfect cast, acting, script, music, cinematography, editing, direction, location. Perfect! Even under the weight of repeat viewing. That it secured only one Academy Award nomination and no wins is a…

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  Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2023

  A labor of love that, brilliantly, reimagines an already beloved tale. Guillermo del Toro breathes life into brave, new characters and revives old ones. His stop-motion narrative is, ironically, fluent. Especially in the way he seduces you into a world of his own, but one that, strangely, becomes also yours: endearingly dreamlike, but frighteningly real, just the same.