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  The Room Next Door 2024

  ★★★ Watched 12 Feb 2025

  The script is so clunky at times. Horrific repeated exposition. Parts of the movie (the whole police sub-story) feel entirely disposable. But parts of it really work, the central idea is fantastic, the house, their relationship, and definitely the ending.

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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2025

  It's just so...tame.

Popular reviews

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  Genius Party 2007

  Watched 28 Jan 2014 9

  An anthology of 7 anime shorts. I'm not an expert on Chinese cartoons but I thought most of these were pretty mediocre.

  "Genius Party" Atsuko Fukushima (5 mins) 3/5

  Dreamlike and surrealistic with an avian theme...perhaps about psychoactive substances? Cool visuals in any case.

  
  "Shanghai Dragon" Shoji Kawamori (19 mins) 2/5

  Sci fi tale set in the past: a bunch of schoolchildren discover an advanced artifact that can materialize thoughts, and are caught in a war between future space humans…

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  Her 2013

  ★★★ Rewatched 30 Jan 2014 4

  So here's why everybody is wrong and Her is a mediocre film.

  I think there are two main problems with Her: 1. It's barely a science fiction film at all, 2. it's a mediocre love story at best.

  Let's get the good stuff out of the way first. Joaquin Phoenix was great. It's a very well realized world in terms of design, it looks like a "real" place, something that could easily be in our future. The cinematography was good…

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