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| 39 4% | Dune: Part Two (2024) - Rated 17 Mar 2024
"Boring"
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| 82 80% | The Regime (2024) - Rated 07 Mar 2024
"Based on S01E01 only. This looks like a cracker. Kate Winslet on form as the insane tyrant from Paris, channelling her inner Thatcher. Speaking as a nobody, it's good to see cabinet and civil servants getting clobbered. Colours and models by Wes Anderson, score on point. Story needs another character. She needs a Malcom Tucker."
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| 78 73% | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) - Rated 05 Mar 2024 |
| 68 34% | Too Big to Fail (2011) - Rated 05 Mar 2024
"Great story, but they got that from real life. Some great acting, especially William Hurt, and some nervous looking bankers. OTOH how did Paul Giamatti get an Oscar for this? He's barely on screen and does not do a lot of "acting" when he is! Soundtrack and locations took a back seat for this one. Direction left a lot to be desired - too much exposition, too litte framing or composition, almost as if Hanson had as little time as Paulson."
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| 67 31% | Past Lives (2023) - Rated 26 Feb 2024
"Just not my kinda thing I can agree with herself, and see why "it is great", but I'd just like a bit more story moving in movies"
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| 69 37% | Saltburn (2023) - Rated 24 Feb 2024
"Beautifully vapid, just like the class it fawns over. Rather a vile little motion picture actually darling. Invites us to glare at envy, as if it were gorgeous. Barry looking great on the dancefloors at the end, and dripping his dialogues all over the rich, but still he had nothing to say. This says nothing interesting, except: Eat The Rich"
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| 76 65% | The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - Rated 18 Feb 2024 |
| 34 3% | The Beekeeper (2024) - Rated 17 Feb 2024
"Jason does the "Jason bit" as well as can be expected. Lack of a writer is not gonna stop him. Helped by good cinematography but hindered by direction and plot and co-stars and anything other than fight choregraphy. Still, a not-too-bad way to lose a couple of hours of a drinking Friday night."
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| 81 79% | Perfect Days (2023) - Rated 11 Feb 2024
"An encapsulation of what it means that "the next day is the next day, and now is now", and how to find joy, ar at least satisfaction, in what the world presents. What Tokyo is presenting to you, here & now. And trees. Of all the aspects of film-making it was the cinematography, and the choices of colours, that really shone for me. It looked so real at times, I'd love to know: is Tokyo really coloured like that? Or did artists select that perception? I suspect Art. It deserved Art! Brilliant."
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| 74 55% | Murder by Decree (1979) - Rated 28 Jan 2024
"Couldn't rate rate Plummer higher than Downey or Cumerbatch. But they did well witihn the limitation of their budget and decade. Part of in interesting "side-history" of Holmes, with the re-tellings of the Eddy tale, but this one pays too much homage to The Classics, and supresses all Holmes exicitement into a pipe cleaner. Fine for a wet Sunday, if there's nothing else on"
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