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  The Menu 2022

  ½ Watched 16 Oct 2022

  This was awful. Trying to be too clever, too hip, too reflexive. Not a single likeable character in this plated mess. Dark for dark's sake... Check please but I ain't paying!

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  The Square 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2017

  This is a criminally under-rated Aussie noir thriller. Can't believe this film doesn't get more love. Tense, taut. Edgy and uncompromising. Underworld characters drag you down into their sad desperate lives but you want them to find a way through.

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  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  ★½ Watched 25 Sep 2022

  I get why people like Taika Waititi - he's an unabashed innovator, risk-taker and all that - but this was slow-going. I wanted to like it but this film got itself all caught up with lots of intellectual postulating and went down paths where I found myself not caring about where it was going. I think I even turned it off before the end.

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  The Disaster Artist 2017

  ★ Watched 05 Feb 2022

  Thought this would've been better. I kept waiting for it to "be" something and I'm not sure I know what I thought it was meant to be. Did this film need to be made when the original piece is everything it was and more... in terms of awfulness? Reminds me of Gus Van Sant remaking Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho'.... it seemed pointless.

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