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  The Iron Lady 2011

  ★½ Watched by Jervis 27 May 2022

  Meryl Streep is remarkable. She deserved her Oscar.

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  The Queen 2006

  ★★½ Watched by Jervis 25 May 2022

  A just fine movie. A little unremarkable as a whole, as is Mirren's performance in my opinion. Loved her acting in the last three minutes however, which was odd since it's a quiet conclusion to the film.

  Nothing to run home about.

Popular reviews

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  The Dig 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched by Jervis 29 Jan 2021 1

  HOLY SHIT!

  I was not expecting to adore this so much. Nor was I expecting my entire family to be watery eyed as it ended. Carey Mulligan is Oscar worthy in an incredibly nuanced and quiet role.

  
  The cinematography was beautiful.

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  The Revenant 2015

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Jervis 04 Jan 2021 2

  Okay let me write some oversharing paragraphs that nobody should care about:

  I saw this in 2016 with my mother during a rainstorm in a shitty cinema in rural Ireland. The entirety of the film is incredibly weather-beaten, so that whole viewing experience felt visceral (I just learned what the word visceral meant). 

  Two large themes of the film are grief and loss - a man’s son is brutally murdered and he sets out on an odyssey-like journey for revenge.…