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  Cure 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Mesmerised.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  In what could very well be the frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars, The Brutalist delivers a searing, deeply profound meditation on power, class, and the exploitation of immigrants and artistic vision.

  At its core, The Brutalist explores the complex and fraught relationship between two men: Van Buren (Guy Pearce), a member of the privileged elite, and Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody), a visionary Hungarian Jewish immigrant struggling to carve out his place in a foreign land. What begins as…

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 29 Jan 2025

  From its gripping opening to its soul-shaking climax, this film evoked the same visceral awe I felt during HAL’s chilling demise in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the jaw-dropping revelation in Incendies.

  Jacques Audiard, a director I greatly admire, has once again delivered a masterpiece, proving that, though he doesn't release films often, his works are always worth the wait.

  The story revolves around a man—entangled in a web of his own wrongdoings—who undergoes a remarkable transformation into Emilia Pérez,…

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  The Sixth Sense 1999

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Oct 1999

  I watched this at a premier screening at The Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, two weeks before its UK release. The screening was part of a 30-hour movie marathon, with the final movie being The Sixth Sense.

  Into the cinema on a Saturday and out the next day Sunday evening.

  I distinctly remember watching Toy Story, Indiana Jones, The Sound of Music, Emmanuelle, and one or two of Sergio Leone's, along with countless others I can't remember, all played…

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