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Recent reviews

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  Zero Effect 1998

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Aptly titled.

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  Goodbye in the Mirror 1964

  Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  For those planning to embark on this one, best of luck!

Popular reviews

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  Perfect Days 2023

  Watched 20 Jul 2023 8

  PERFECT DAYS is the work of a now older, once vital filmmaker straining for meaning and poignancy. Wim Wenders' films have offered diminishing returns for many years now, but there's always a chance that he might, in his later years, particularly in his beloved Tokyo and with the breath of Yasujiro Ozu on his neck, deliver a meditative masterwork.

  Alas, not this time. Although judging by the enthusiastic response from the largely snowy-haired punters at this afternoon's screening, my scruples…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ½ Watched 13 Nov 2023 2

  As we all know, Robert Oppenheimer (the man) was put in charge of the development of the most potentially catastrophic undertaking in human history. He willingly participated in building the most devastating weapon yet known to humankind and was involved in choosing the detonation sites, fully cognisant of the imminent death of many thousands of civilians in the soon-to-be-obliterated cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an act that even the dimmest observer couldn't fail to recognise as one that goes so…