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2024

★★★★★ Liked 2

Still the fucking best.

Justin Kuritzkes And Celine Song… whatever love-triangle drama happened to you in the late 2000s… please keep making movies about it.

2025

★★★★★ Watched 15 May 2025

This is likely to be Attenborough’s swan song and it’s perhaps his most urgent film to date.
Everyone should see this.

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2024

½ 9

Genuinely maddening.

• Every song beginning as a cracked whisper, with each performer struggling harder to find the note each time.
• The songs themselves being devoid of decent melodies and overstuffed with terrible lyrics.
• The trivialisation of the trans experience is what really sent me over the edge. Absolute dogshit writing (implying some people transition in order to deceive, like we’re watching fucking Mrs. Doubtfire)
• Some of the worst cinematography, lighting, and editing I’ve ever seen. A…

2024

★★★★½ 5

Look, no one’s more surprised than me for how highly I’ve rated this film.
But as someone who’s spent a lot of time analysing music biopics, Better Man offers up the most refreshingly creative interpretation of what has become an extremely tired formula.
Sure, the beats and tropes are still there but it’s like this film took the best parts of recent musicals/biopics; Elvis’s chaotic energy, Rocketman’s theatrical approach, and yes, even West Side Story’s dance-focused cinematography, and combined them into…

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