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  Good Intentions 2018

  ★★ Watched by autumn 🌻 07 Aug 2022

  i do love soft stop motion shorts
  if it was intended for him to have been the hit-and-run driver, then this is a really interesting short, that misses its beats slightly
  if she was intended to have been the hit-and-run driver, then this is definitely too clunky and simple

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  Paris, Texas 1984

  ★★★★½ Watched by autumn 🌻 05 Aug 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  £3 25-and-under ticket at the BFI seeing the 4k restoration.

  genuinely very moving. the shots were beautifully composed. the lighting was always beautiful.
  I enjoyed discovering that this was a film about essentially pure-hearted characters, and the plot wasn't driven by artificial character betrayals or cheap plot points. it was incredibly heart-warming and incredibly real.

  its only weakness for me was in the mother. she was almost too ephemeral, too elusive that she almost didn't make sense. her booth scenes…

Popular reviews

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  The Basketball Diaries 1995

  ★ Watched by autumn 🌻 03 Aug 2022

  leo's acting is so good, that it makes me actually mad at the rest of the film for being so w e a k that is simply relies on him to carry the entire 1 hour and 40 minutes.
  badly directed.
  badly written.
  the voiceover is lame.
  kinda badly casted too because I absolutely did not care for a single character in this.

  bad.

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  Spencer 2021

  ★★½ Watched by autumn 🌻 06 Nov 2021

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  An overly polished film that severely lacks any heart.
  I think the film suffers largely through its too-heavy reliance on contextual sympathy for Diana, and forgets that within its own diegesis it needs to establish likeability - a reason for emotional alignment - and it just... fails to do that.

  All that is presented to the audience is a women who continuously shows up late to the events a royal would be expected to be at; views everything as a…