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  A Real Pain 2024

  Watched 10 Jan 2025

  A gift for film teachers everywhere.

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  Wonka 2023

  Watched 04 Dec 2024

  Better than one wonka film, not as good as the other one

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  Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024

  ★★½ Watched 16 May 2024

  References to Greek mythology mixed with Hitchcock and deliberate misinterpretation of a martyr’s philosophies aside - is there much left to do after three monkeys vs humans films? No, not really

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  Glass Onion 2022

  Watched 01 Jan 2023

  The comedian Sarah Silverman once stated that if a character remarks “that plan is stupid!” Or “damn you’re moronic” that’s really the writer’s subconscious sneaking through and betraying a weak plot point, but in Glass Onion’s case when Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc calls out idiocy, it is a welcome slap in the face of the movie’s overriding theme: silly rich people think they’re great. 
  It’s difficult for this film to live up to its predecessor, which burst onto the…

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