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  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

    ★★★★½

  • Oh My Goodness!

    ★★★

  • Polite Society

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

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  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

    ★★★★½

    This was an absolute delight; it's funny, frank and sweet about this kid dealing with being in a new city and and growing up, and all the stresses that comes with, but it also had loads under the surface. The parents, Barbara and Herb, dealing with antisemitism from the mum's family, the grandparents trying to choose a religion for Margaret and the parents trying to protect Margaret from that, and Barbara dealing with the impact of going from doing something…

  • Oh My Goodness!

    Oh My Goodness!

    ★★★

    Very silly and the humour doesn't entirely work, and the story doesn't hand together, but it was funny and slapstick, and relatively entertaining

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    This was a madcap delight about how dehumanising capitalism is! Naomi Ackie's rage in several scenes was utterly cathartic. I loved the argument this film makes for the dignity of people and animals, whilst also giving Robert Pattinson free reign to be a weird little guy!

  • The Matrix Reloaded

    The Matrix Reloaded

    ★★½

    I was really hoping I would enjoy this, having seen the original a lot but never checking out the others (bar Resurrections a couple of years ago). I really wanted to get on board with the themes around choice and control, but this was just clunky and quite flat! The performances are mostly wooden, the exposition, that in the original felt like it was so woven into the story, felt like the film was putting the brakes on any sense…

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