Joe Ryan

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  • Juror #2

    ★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★½

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★★

  • Bottoms

    ★★★½

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★½

    lo, they abhor not the virgin’s womb

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★★

    unironically the best film yet made about AI safety risk

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  • All of Us Strangers

    All of Us Strangers

    ★★★★

    While initially seeming like a love story, this might be a film about loneliness more than anything else. We meet the main character, Adam, a script writer, living a liminal existence in London, in an almost empty tower block, living in the city but not of the city.

    This blurriness continues throughout the film when Adam returns to his childhood home and meets his parents, who died when he was a child. Are they ghosts? Is this fantasy? A script…

  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★½

    A beautiful film, thought provoking and tear jerking, though maybe not in the ways you might expect.

    Every day in our lives we make choice, majority are inconsequential, some are not, and most are probably unconscious. Generally we don't even think about it. Yet everyone at a certain point in their lives will have an event or a moment or a person who makes these other possibilities, these roads untaken, seem suddenly real and visible.

    This is what the film…

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