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Recent reviews

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  Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry 2012

  Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I went to Palazzo Fava for an Ai Weiwei art exhibition and ended up watching this film on an uncomfortable wooden stool with no back rest.

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  Porco Rosso 1992

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  A pig that doesn’t fly is just a pig.
  
  
  Good score, pretty animation of the Italian landscape, but a slightly underwhelming finish.

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  I have always found Bong Joon-Ho’s international films a bit kitsch, lacking the nuanced political messaging embedded in his Korean-speaking films. Perhaps it comes down to a translation barrier, but Mickey 17 was perhaps a little too garish for me. It is also ironic how with Nasha’s whole speech about anti-colonialism, the ending still proudly portrayed the instruments of human settlement — war machines neatly parked in a parade square.

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2022 4

  This may be the best one yet. Beautifully incorporating the Art Deco aesthetic of Tim Burton’s renditions with Joker’s element of insanity and jadedness, this film had all the right vibes. 
  Despite the saturated catalogue of iterations the legendary masked vigilante has, this film still manages to carve its own niche among its predecessors as a nail-biting film noir crime thriller that immediately draws comparisons to Se7en or Silence of the Lambs, cutting the edge the superhero genre once again.