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  We Live in Time 2024

  Watched 12 Feb 2025

  Do we though?...

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  Here 2024

  Watched 03 Dec 2024

  I really liked this film up until near the end. Some of it is very moving. But something felt very wrong the way she left Tom Hanks. She can't even remember where she is and she's immediately like 'no'. Some life-coach comes in and has an opinion and we only ever see Tom Hanks being nice unlike his angry dad. We don't see the reasons why. Feels like an inside job. Feels very wrong on a gut level.

Popular reviews

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  Youth 2017

  ★★★★★ Added

  Xeng Fiaogang 'Youth' is a deeply moving chronicle of the passage from the bubble of youth to the messiness, complexity and numbing nihilism that can exist in the adult world. It achieves its substantive depth from its acceptance of the transcience of time.

  The war is a metaphor for the youth being thrown into adulthood. The battle scenes, like previous Xiaogang films, are expertly made. They are shockingly violent and bombastic. This movie is almost impossibly moving.

  The leviathan-like sweep of history presses against the taut sensitivity of the characters.

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  Mank 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Dec 2020

  David Fincher's 'Mank' resolves itself into a Jew, sorry I mean dew.

  In the first half of this film there are many classic Hollywood style shots which is nice to see. 'Mank' is full of great quips, also redolent of that time. It really falls down at the end. Fincher is dealing with very worthwhile material and almost runs away from it back to a story about a single figure he can more readily comprehend.

  Fincher doesn’t understand politics. Following…