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Recent reviews

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  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2013

  Watched 18 Mar 2025 1

  the title sequence, superimposed text elements and poppy indie folk music over travel montages are so early 2010s i almost put my skinny jeans back on, but apart from that there's some creative and funny writing in this that actually made me laugh. ultimately Ben Stiller loves to look at himself a bit too much.

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  Tango 1981

  Watched 25 Feb 2025 1

  watched out of the corner of my eye on three hours of sleep on an iphone propped up to a bottle on a sunken table in Ghent's oldest café while listening to my companions discuss other films and thinking about whether we would make the bus back.

Popular reviews

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  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024

  ★ Watched 02 Dec 2024

  i'm still a bit too upset about this film to let it slide. while the trailer made me really curious and excited about what it set out to achieve, it completely missed the mark in its execution. the connection of jazz music and the coup felt way too loosely knit. the film was constantly trying to find a rhythm, a melody, while remaining tone deaf and insensitive. instead of making the topic approachable and comprehensible for an audience without sufficient…

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  Tetro 2009

  ★★ Watched 22 Oct 2024

  I'll stick with Rumble Fish.

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