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The Silence of the Lambs 1991
For me SOTL is about emotional connection … wait, hear me out! I know it sounds a bit backwoodsman to have a strong emotional connection with a serial killer movie, but of course it’s not really about that. It’s a movie about relationships, about love, redemption … That opening sequence gets me every time no matter how many times I watch it … that sense of anticipation and dread … marvellous. Jodie is, of course, faultless and utterly credible as…
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Civil War 2024
I deliberately avoided reviews before I watched this, and I’m so glad I did. Coming at the movie cold allows you to let the images and sounds power into you in the most visceral way. The movie centres on the ethics of photo journalism, and in my view much less so on the picturing of modern America as a place where the Don’s hucksterism has led the great republic to its inevitable, frightening end point of violence and destruction.
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Ratatouille 2007
An extraordinary warm and intelligent film, my originally giving it four and a half stars was probably more to do with the limitations of the Letterboxd scoring system … The Incredibles, for example, is a more complete film and deserves top marks, but Ratatouille would probably be 9.9 out of ten. Anyway, I changed it to five stars on the basis that it’s a stone cold classic!!
In my view we had a second mini golden age of animation in…
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Alien 1979
It’s weird writing these reviews, because there’s a ton of very erudite cultural analysis out there on these epoch-making movies written by much better-informed people than me. Can I have a valid view if it’s impressionistic and not in line with the accepted wisdom that has developed over 45 years? Personally I think that’s a very interesting question, but you may feel differently. If so, you are wrong.
Sigourney Weaver is utterly magnificent, and a powerhouse of female strength and…
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