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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  L'Argent 1983

  ★★½ Watched 30 May 2023

  Sad to report that my first Bresson was quite an underwhelming experience. His minimalistic, objective camera and dramaturgy grated on me after an hour and during the latter stages his departure from morality play into grimdark, Baconian portrait of the species that would invent such a currency as ours left a sour taste in my mouth. If this is the director’s final film then what a strident, pessimistic note to end on; I might have done well to start with his earliest. Christ!

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  Suspiria 1977

  ★½ Added

  I simply couldn’t vibe with this.

  A whole lot of aesthetic flair exhibited in this film fails to redeem the utter bore of its mystery, with jarring ADR and a truly grating prog-horror-rock score contributing to an experience that, at points, feels actively hostile to the senses.

  I can respect ‘Suspiria’ as a seminal piece of art within the horror genre, but it is abundantly clear that all of its enduring qualities lie firmly in its style (the only aspect of the film that hasn’t vanished from my memory not an hour after viewing). It's a neon light show as interpretively colourful as it is forgettable.

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★ Added 3

  Christopher Nolan has once again taken Ayahuasca deep within the rainforest and returned to the mortal realm bearing a screenplay that will allow all its witnesses to engage in psycho-sexual congress with the greater cosmos.

  ‘Tenet’ is Daedalian. There are far more layers to its logical conceit than those that envelop ‘Inception’’s and the constant new iterations of rules and proscriptions proves to be more alienating to the film’s experience rather than more engaging. This is in spite of the…