Recent reviews

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  The Souvenir 2019

  ★★★½ Added

  The most polarizing film at the festival I think - it really, to borrow someone else's words, keeps you at arm's length for most of the film, and some people were very much not about that, but I really appreciated it. Tragedy upon tragedy in this one though - not for the faint of heart or a day when you need something happy, but otherwise really a brilliant meditation on self-respect and privilege and addiction. While too slow in certain…

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  We Are Little Zombies 2019

  ★★★★½ Added

  Genuinely original - my favorite of the festival. It's a video-game inspired, originally-scored fever dream with a shocking amount of optimism to its world view. The last bit was augmented a lot by how delightful Masako Nagahisa is as a person. Found myself grinning from ear to ear for most of it, even the bits (which are myriad) that are genuinely tragic

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  Roma 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2019

  Left feeling absolutely gutted; ultimately think there's some truth to the critique of the flatness of Cleo as a character, but think it comes across as largely an indictment of how the family has seen her more than an unconscious failure on Cuaron's part