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Recent reviews

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  Inside Out 2015

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Jun 2024

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

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  Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 02 Jun 2024 4

  Over the past year and change, I have noticed a trend of film that is popping up with alarming frequency to me; movies that are impeccably well-crafted that I simply do not understand the impetus for their existence. For the most part, they are projects by up and coming filmmakers who are extremely eager to prove to the world just how much they have read up on and studied their favourite influences by soullessly mimicking their idols' techniques and palettes.…

Popular reviews

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  Wish 2023

  ★ Watched 19 Nov 2023 31

  If I have to commend anything about Wish, a film produced to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company, it has a unique visual style not quite reminiscent of any other film that Walt Disney Animation Studios has ever released. It is a style that arises from a dozen different creative decisions that all coalesce into this singular aesthetic, all made with conscious intent, none accidental. For that, I say "good on them". I also would prefer it…

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2024 5

  I have spent 24 hours thinking of this movie, and I have decided that I’m probably never going to settle on a single opinion so I might as well put something on here. See, barring a few unforced errors, I found Jonathan Glazer’s latest awakening from decade long hiatuses to be successful in what it sets out to be. The kicker is that I cannot pin down what it sets out to be, how much of it is successful, nor…