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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Nov 2023

  Reviewed for Empire Magazine: www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/godzilla-minus-one/

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  The Incredibles 2004

  Rewatched 27 Nov 2023

  forgot how beautifully economical this was

  Pixar movies by design don’t age well in terms of their textures and backgrounds (or should I say “environments”… I don’t know how rendering works) but the sparseness is fine, perhaps it even works in its favour if you’re looking at it from Bob’s point of view - that emptiness resembling a myopic view of the “glory days” or a world slowly rumbling back to life with the return of superhero stuff. anyway, as…

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  Ema 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2019 3

  still thinking about the dance sequence on the rooftop a week later - loved the complicated, messy polyamory and the film's focus on sensation over everything else, pretty much beats CLIMAX at its own game

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  The Matrix Reloaded 2003

  Rewatched 15 Dec 2021 2

  sure, it remixes and interrogates the previous one by imagining the responsibilities and connotations of The One as a new kind of prison, but this is first and foremost a film about how the French are annoying