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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★½ Watched 24 May 2023

  I think I enjoyed each sequence in this individually. All put together however, Beau Is Afraid is an overlong odyssey of weirdness which didn’t engage me very much unfortunately. Some fun segments though in Beau’s journey, and the little section in the woods with the stage play was really great! But all the surrealism is lost on me, and I was finally engaged in the final scenes until that one insane moment pulled me out of it again. This is not a bad movie, but I certainly didn’t click with it.

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  Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 2016

  ★½ Watched 21 May 2023 1

  All 6 of these movies were a colossal waste of my time. “Why did you continue to watch them all?” I don’t know!? To feel something, I guess!? Devoid of any substance, just watch these if you want to kill 90 mins and turn your brain off for the evening.

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Jan 2023

  Babylon lets you know exactly what kind of ride you’re in for in its opening minutes. An absolute riot that does not let up for a good two hours. I feel it loses its footing in the third hour but this thing is so funny and so wild at points that you can’t look away. It glamourises this revolutionary age of cinema and just the love of movies without satirising or being overtly pretentious about it. Diego Calva is fantastic, and…

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  The Tragedy of Macbeth 2021

  ★★ Watched 14 Jan 2022

  Visually very stylish, but even with stacked talent, far less stirring than Justin Kurzel’s version which I find to be my perfect adaptation.

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