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  Anora 2024

  ★★½ Watched 09 Jan 2025

  One of the biggest disappointments of 2024, esp for a Sean Baker fan like myself… 2.5 stars for Mikey.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ½ Watched 06 Jan 2025 1

  Israel is an apartheid state that needs to be dismantled. Free Palestine. Fuck this film.

Popular reviews

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  The Menu 2022

  ½ Rewatched 12 Jan 2023

  This film pissed me off so much that it’s making me write my first review on this platform. 

  I rarely regret watching films from start to finish even when I dislike them, this one really got on my nerves. Probably one of the most tone-deaf things I have ever watched: it baffles me that not even 1 person stopped short and thought twice about the oxymoron of a famous chef (who charges  1.2k+ per person) telling a sex-worker/ escort that…

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  The first half of this film really didn’t work for me, but there were unexpected, quite strong moments dispersed here and there across the film, particularly from a dialogue writing / audio visual storytelling perspective. It left me feeling like Jesse Eisenberg would do better as an author or a playwright: even though the idea of “roadtrip —-> cousins bonding etc” works fine on paper, the structure of the story wasn’t strong enough to handle issues of suicide, death and…

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