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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  Most will compare this film with Todd Haynes masterpiece I am Not There, a film which captures the multiple different Dylans perfectly and understands his significance as a cultural figure, and is definitely the better rendering, but nevertheless this offers pretty enjoyable fare for Dylanheads. I think the biggest virtue of this particular version of the Dylan story is its focus on the music itself and its impact, rather than looking behind the mask and delving too much into Dylan’s…

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  Napoleon 2023

  ★★ Watched 13 Dec 2024

  This is an awful film. One achievement is that Bonaparte fans and critics will be united in their dislike of it's bastardisation of history for no discernible artistic worth.

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  The Seventh Seal 1957

  ★★★★★ Added

  The image of the knight playing chess with death is iconic, and what first brought this film to my attention. The black and white adds so much I think to the brooding atmosphere.The plot is simplistic,but not predictably so, and deal with relevant questions about the human condition and our relationship with our mortality. This film really made me feel uneasy about the ideas it raised.

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  Dad's Army 2016

  ★★★ Added

  Bit too much of a nostalgia exercise. Well cast and enjoyable for those who liked the tv series. Not really enough jokes.

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