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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  A slow burning, tragic tale which stands out for its subtlety and exceptional foreshadowing. You expect something bad to happen at some point to the Dad or Daughter, that is obvious, but so many different hints are given you are left without knowing until quite late in the film who, how and what this will be - which I liked. Didn’t quite get that emotional sucker-punch moment I expected, not a tear was shed with this one, but it was…

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  Close 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Dec 2024 1

  Well that was NOT what I expected. At all, not one bit. WTAF. 

  I’ve never known a film suck you into a plot so much before absolutely destroying it for something equally but uniquely provoking.

  I feel empty without anything to grasp onto.

  Oh why oh why did I watch this.

Popular reviews

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2024 2

  This is a very hard film for me to rate and review. It was like nothing I’ve seen before. The film is taken from almost a ‘fly on the wall’ perspective with no true following of characters or their plot lines. A well-to-do Nazi family of the Commander for Aushwitz is observed in their day-to-day life, living on the outskirts of the camp. Only the camp wall separates their home and garden from
  the horrors of inside which the director…

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  Twilight 2008

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2024

  Twilight is a complete and tidy teenage fantasy which delivers the plot from the books with good direction and acting. The film also seems to avoid cliche and cringy writing so commonly encountered in similar American teen films from the noughties, which was a relief. The film would have benefited from more visceral and graphic scenes of vampire encounters, as I feel this is a currently unfilled gap in the fantasy/horror genre - although I understand this film had to…

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