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  Hard Truths 2024

  ★★★ Added

  Something I really like about Hard Truths is how it eased us in the audience at Peckhamplex in with humour and easygoing drama, some of it capturing with brilliant realism the vibrant banter any Brit will be familiar with (or enviously wishing that they were!) and some of it unfortunately feeling a touch too low-brow, soap-opera-ish.

  Hiding behind that veil, though, is some spectacular drama, carried in no small part by Marianne Jean-Baptiste's stellar performance and Michelle Austin's great supporting…

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  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

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  I feel the need to write something long and thoughtful but I don't think I can; maybe that's in no small part because of the effort that went into watching this!

  But it was effort well spent. I definitely don't think it's avant-garde for the sake of it. I see the vision, I felt it. It shows what cinema could be like if we had better attention spans, if a film like Jeanne Dielman wasn't an experiment that we as…

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  Grand Theft Hamlet 2024

  ★★★ Added

  When I was young, video games held a utopian promise: that of community. It wasn't something explicitly stated by game developers. You never found the word 'community' in trailers for Team Fortress 2, or CS: Source, or Halo 2 and 3, or Garry's Mod, and so on. Yet community was what I almost found.

  That's not to say I was necessarily frustrated or disappointed; I had some of the best times of my life in Team Fortress 2's Dustbowl map,…

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★★★½ Added 1

  Wim Wenders, you've made your plea and I'm hearing you.

  It's a beautiful day, today. There's not much standing between me and my enjoyment of it, but it still feels like a monumental task to get my feet over those obstacles.

  I'll breathe and lift one leg after the other, and let the sun hit my face.

  I sincerely hope this film is doing for a generation of young people what Into The Wild did for me.

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