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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Feb 2023

  With incredible cinematography and a performance of the ages from Cate Blanchett, writer-director Todd Field has struck gold with his latest feature.

  Oscar-nominated for his two previous features, Little Children (2006) and In the Bedroom (2001), genius writer-director Todd Field has now received a further six Oscar nominations for his most recent film TÁR – an impressive track record indeed. Lydia Tár (a masterful, already Critics Choice and now Golden Globe-winning Cate Blanchett) is a world-class composer-conductor turned monster maestro…

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  Mass 2021

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Jan 2022

  Fran Kranz’s surprising debut, a stripped-back, chamber piece examination of forgiveness, offers a timely lesson for a divided world.

  Mass (2021) is the emotionally arresting and technically adept debut from writer-director Fran Kranz. Two couples – Gail and Jay (Martha Plimpton, Jason Isaacs) and Linda and Richard (Ann Dowd, Reed Birney) – meet for a painful conversation years after a tragic shooting. The former couple are the parents of one of the victims; the latter, those of the perpetrator. Yet,…

Recent reviews

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  Evil Dead Rise 2023

  ★★★½ Rewatched 14 May 2023

  Need to see a spin-off prequel with the priests. Could bring back Bruce Campbell. Would be awesome if they approached it as the Conjuring universe did The Nun.

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  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 May 2023

  ROCKET: Someday I’m going to make great machines that fly, and me and my friends are going to go flying together into the forever and beautiful sky. Lylla, and Teefs, and Floor, and me. Rocket.
  
  LYLLA: There are the hands that made us, and then there are the hands that guide the hands.

Popular reviews

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  I Came By 2022

  ★★ Watched 31 Aug 2022

  AS IF he’d watch Rick and Morty

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Oct 2022 1

  That was feckin’ good, like.