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gogolit
Cinema Addict
# Film Ratings: 1008
Member Since: 16 Oct 2013

Recent Ratings

80 77%
The Railway Children (1970) - Rated 20 Sep 2025
83 86%
Hamlet (2000) - Rated 14 Sep 2025
Fun to watch in 2025 for the 1999 aesthetic, and to see Hamlet in a blockbuster, and sending a fax to Claudius. Cast is also fun. Seems to be hugely inspired by Baz Luhrman's R&J, but without the stylistic flair and intensity. But I'm not complaining, some of the lines, some of the best ever written, are very well acted .
81 82%
Gattaca (1997) - Rated 29 Aug 2025
80 77%
Winter's Bone (2010) - Rated 10 Aug 2025
Excells in indie realism. Screenplay only servicable, but the performances, characters, setting and atmosphere are the drivers of the film. Lawrence plays a mysteriously and eerily similar role to Hunger Games in many ways. As usual, her performance is quietly engaging more than a spectacular thespian feat.
90 96%
In the Mood for Love (2000) - Rated 16 Jul 2025
beautiful filmmaking (obviously) that defies extended wordy analysis. Does feel a tad emotionally distant at times considering what is going on in the film. But the film even manages to rebuff my one critique in that this occasional emotional distance well reflects the more rational actions of the protags themselves.
80 77%
The Black Dahlia (2006) - Rated 28 Jun 2025
Wonderfully shot on fascinating purpose built sets. Actors mostly understood the mission. The big shame is that the story hangs on by a thread of comprehension, much is not explained. A victim of zealous cuts stopped what could've been a classic. Still good though.
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Lilo & Stitch (2025) - Rated 19 Jun 2025
Very disturbing blatently colonial fundamental story changes that change and remove entire emotional meaning of original. The most disturbing is Lilo has been re-written as merely a burden to her sister's desire for a career in America, who at the end of the film does indeed leave Lilo in foster care, to be a marine biologist - wait for it - not in Hawaii where some of the best colleges (and free!) are for that subject - but in California. A total inversion of the original film's message.
75 60%
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - Rated 15 May 2025
79 71%
Moon (2009) - Rated 06 Apr 2025
A great achievement on only a $5 million budget. Unique in that there is only 1 actor on screen for essentially the entire movie. Very great model work and set making. Not much of an ending, in a sense, which is only felt more so due to the previously well paced and dramatic build up to something happening.
70 41%
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) - Rated 09 Mar 2025