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Reviews

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  

  Jhordan ★★★★★ 4

  So, yesterday was Hal's birthday! He would be 30 years old. It is also my first time participating in Lise and Jonathan's Hal's birthday project. 

  First of all, in The…

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  Cyrano 2021

  

  Gemma G ★★★★★ 2

  If heaven is where you fall, I’ve fallen for this film.

  More later, if Cyrano will agree to write my review for me.

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  The Castle 1997

  

  Jacob Powell ★★★★

  "F3?! What the f**k is that?!?"

  Nothing is more relatable than Dennis Denuto's late 90s photocopier woes.

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  Incendies 2010

  

  Hutch ★★½ 12

  I was wrong-footed by this one. I was expecting a tense and searing drama digging into the complexity of Middle Eastern conflicts, but what I got was a convoluted family…

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  Café de Flore 2011

  

  Mark Cira ★★★★★ 3

  Jean Marc-Vallée (March 9, 1963 — December 26, 2021)

  No other Canadian director influenced me or moved me more than Jean-Marc Vallée. I still remember seeing C.R.A.Z.Y. stoned out of head,…

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  Don't Look Up 2021

  

  Phips 5

  Don't Look Up is actually good. I shouldn't be surprised as it is an Adam McKay film after all, but it is also a Netflix film and that's working against it.…

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  Drive My Car 2021

  

  Hary Artemis ★★★★ 1

  74/100

  This is rich, intuitive and radical film is an undoubtedly major work, albeit rather too self-consciously so; there is really no real reason why it is 179 minutes long,…

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  Passing 2021

  

  Hary Artemis ★★★★

  71/100

  The most surprising thing about this gorgeous-looking, formally stunning and prescient film is that it is a debut. It literally takes just minutes to realise that Hall is in…