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  The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  This afternoon, I finished reading the book of this and subsequently felt that watching the film made sense. I quite enjoyed the book, but the film just wasn't as good.

  I think the book works because it's about a journey and allows enough time to explore that journey through its different stages. In contrast, this—simply due to how condensed it is—feels like it rushes through a lot.

  However, at its core, this is a bizarre story for me. It starts…

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  Medium Cool 1969

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  This I feel certainty classes as an experience film. Narrative wise it is what in the biz they would describe as "everyone in the writers room write a scene and we'll just shoot em all".

  It has some wonderfully clever camera shots and transitions that hold up to this day with the added extra points of being over 50 years old.

  This film has a magic quality to it where you have absolutely no clue whatsoever of where in the…

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  Little Miss Sunshine 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  This has been on the list for a very long time and happened to be what I decided on this evening.

  This is a really wonderful film that tells a story that I suppose quite regular. Although the entire beauty pageant thing is absolutely wild just as a concept but if you're acknowledging that as a thing then this is a pretty regular story.

  It's the right amount of sad and the right amount of happy and just has left…

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  Lady Bird 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  I do have to say "do you have an awareness of how many civilians we've killed since the invasion in Iraq started?" Is my new favourite Tim Chalamet line.

  Just a very sweet coming of age film. I feel this was definitely a slightly left field watch on my part but I needed an hour and a half film and this was what I had downloaded.

  This is definitely an enjoyable film but I think I'm finding the more and…

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