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  The Secret Garden 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  Beyond Ghibli, it is not often you see a children's story that treats their innocence with the respect and admiration it deserves. The first coming-of-age moment in life is walking outside and realising what your parents taught you was maybe not entirely accurate. This film beautifully and sweetly depicts that moment in the lives of a couple of posh and lonely children. It features somewhat goofy but still incredibly accomplished child and animal performances. The biggest danger they are in…

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  Juror #2 2024

  ★ Watched 09 Dec 2024

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

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★ Watched 03 Jan 2023

  I hated it when I watched it and I hate it even more as I remember it in my head. The story being told in an extremely vague way is dead simple, and not particularly interesting or nuanced. It just takes forever to make its point and -more annoyingly- is filled with misdirection. The camera lingers oddly on bodies, ominous music looms when the 13 year old sees older kids make out, somebody grabs her from behind but it's just…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★ Watched 20 Jul 2023

  generous, flattering biopic, completely disinterested in probing the subject at hand. way too long, needlessly complicated editing. not emotionally resonant at all, philosophically illiterate, and worst of all, tasteless. watchable because of the craft and the talented cast, but that's all.

  spoilers: it contains a scene where he reads "i am become death, destroyer of worlds" out loud from a book in the original Sanskrit while simultaneously fucking Florence Pugh.

  impossible to take it seriously, which is awkward for a movie about the atomic bomb.

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