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Recent reviews

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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★½ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  The problem with first showing us an aggressively noxious character and then trying to walk it back, explain it and make us feel sorry for her is that if you do the first half too well the second half is impossible. See also: Problemista.

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  Here 2024

  ★★★ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  Paints with a comically-broad brush, but some emotional notes hit as intended, and it’s nice to see something at least vaguely experimental in mainstream normie cinema.

Popular reviews

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  Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014

  ★★ Watched 25 Jun 2014

  Look, it's exactly as good as the last one was. What that means depends on who you are.

  For my part, while it's one of the biggest special effects spectaculars of the year, it's still an hour too long, and filled with humour that doesn't work and action you can't see.

  It's almost incredible how little replacing the lead characters changed the movie. Wahlberg is supposed to be the hero, but he's repetitive and annoying about his daughter the whole…

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  Fall 1997

  ★ Watched 16 May 2014

  I think I have a new least-favourite director.