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Better on second viewing, but still too serious, too sombre, and just not enough fun. Not a bad movie necessarily, but not the direction this franchise was heading in AT ALL.
Tramell Tillman MVP though.
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This is the cinematic equivalent of a quaint elderly man showing you his stamp collection. Yeah sure it looks pretty but PLEASE for the love of god can we go outside and have some fun???
An extra half a star for Michael Cera.
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Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.
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It’s fine. Not bad, but nothing special (for me).
It’s the most competent non-sequel, post-Endgame Marvel movie. But I don’t think that’ll fit on the poster.
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Officially features Tom’s Best Run of the series (over Blackfriars station/bridge). The camera tracks him, his pacing body framed by the city of London in the background, and it was at this moment that I punched the air and yelled “YEAH FUCKING GET ‘EM TOM!!”
This is why we watch these movies. It understands 👏 the 👏 assignment 👏
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Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.
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Still slaps! Opening goes hard. Philip Seymour Hoffman goes harder. Tom’s run in Shanghai deserves an Olympic medal.
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Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.
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“And he had a hippy beard”
“Bee Gees or Mungo Jerry?”
“Definitely Mungo Jerry”
Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.
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Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.
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Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.
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A good movie! Funny, charming, might be my favourite Baldwin performance?? He’s charming, sleazy, and endearing all at once. You can understand why Meryl Streep’s character married and divorced him. Nice to see Steve Martin play it straight.
This was only 15 years ago and they really don’t make them like this anymore.
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Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.
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Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.
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Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy meets The Office
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If Midsummar was directed by Elton John
(and I like Elton John!)
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Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.
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The most intense episode of Who Do You Think You Are ever
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Watched on Thursday March 6, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday March 6, 2025.
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Possibly one of the worst documentaries I have ever seen. It has zero integrity. McCarthy interrupts his subjects, contradicts them, asks leading questions…from a journalistic/documentarian point of view it’s completely moot.
Instead it’s just a bizarre, prolonged midlife crisis whine from Andrew McCarthy about the 1980s ‘Brat Pack’ article and subsequent label, which he sees as a hugely damaging moment in his career, but the more they talk about it the more it seems like just such a non-event.
It’s also shot terribly. Ally Sheedy and Howard Deutch both query his set up, and why do we need Kodak film footage AND 90s digital camera footage of present day McCarthy? It’s also edited to within an inch of its life. Like, wtf is that Emilio Estevez interview? Not one sentence was finished. I have no idea whether they spoke for 5 minutes or 5 hours.
Anyway, the most interesting thing is seeing the homes of the interviewees (Demi Moore wins by far, Rob Lowe runner up. Emilio Estevez has a nice kitchen).
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Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.
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The best of the bunch. Laughs, tears, ageing, loss, family, friends. What a complete surprise!
Something in my heart is warmed seeing her hang out with Sally Phillips, James Callis, and Shirley Henderson again after all these years.
So many delightful moments and callbacks. Claire Skinner and Celia Imrie in blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo returns, half the people at the party at the beginning are the same actors from 24 years ago, the blue cocktails, her son wearing Darcy’s original Christmas jumper 🩷💜
If the Bridget series just went 1 then 4 (skipping over the nonsense of 2 and 3) it would be such an interesting rom-com arc, a Richard Curtis’d Before trilogy.
We need to celebrate how this film absolutely nails everything it sets out to achieve. A triumph, in that respect. And for that, it might low-key be my favourite film of the year so far?
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The bravest thing here is Isiah wearing a houndstooth blazer to The White House. Bold choice - it’s a black tie event man!
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Watched on Monday February 10, 2025.
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If this was tightened up into a 60 minute episode of Black Mirror, it would be one of the best episodes of the series.
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Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.
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Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.
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Solid, goofy, anarchic fun! Stylish and stressful enough to undercut any self-congratulatory moments.
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This was like watching the re-animated corpse of the first generation of Instagram. Every hipster cliché from the early 2010s is explored, but also not satirised or mocked??
If you’re unsure, James Corden wears a fedora the entire time. That’s the vibe we’re working with.
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Yeah but why isn’t he played by a chimpanzee
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Yes it’s pretentious, slow, often glib, occasionally trite - but I’m a sucker for these Larraín movies. Like Jackie and Spencer before this, I want to wrap myself in the immaculate visuals, the ghostly score, the whole funereal, ethereal doomed fairy tale world. It’s perhaps flawed, and it’s definitely the weaker of the three films in this unofficial trilogy, but I still found it wonderfully beguiling.
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Well this is lovely.
I expected this to be sillier and more comedic, but it’s actually a really sincere, heartfelt coming-of-age story that brings something new to the genre and the ‘last summer before college’ trope. Sweet without being schmaltzy, it’s really touching.
Also, it looks fantastic?? And although Aubrey Plaza is actually in it very little (2-3 scenes?), Maisy Stella is such a great lead. Effortlessly natural. Also Percy Hynes White looks like a young Clifton Collins Jr.
Oh and it’s only 90 minutes long. Bangin’.
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I’d never seen the stage show. I barely knew the plot. I only maybe knew two of the songs.
And yet, I LOVED it.
Big, fun, colourful, sweeping musical that has so much heart. Cynthia obviously amazing but I was completely beguiled by Ariana Grande - impeccable comic timing!
What a wonderful show. Cheer up everyone, it’s bloody delightful.
(Also, the first half is basically an extended version of the flashback scene in The Grinch)
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Sillier than a big can of Silly String! But watchable nonetheless. I will have no memory of this film by New Year’s Day.
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When are we going to talk about how dull Mark Darcy is
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That entire Thailand section is painful to watch now.
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Watched on Friday December 27, 2024.
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I liked it! This film could have been terrible, and it’s really not. The Rock DJ set piece, in particular, absolutely slaps.
Musical biopics comprise my least favourite film genre - they have become so stale, stiff and self-congratulatory to the point that they offer no real value. However, choosing to portray Robbie as a chimpanzee (with no diegetic explanation) is a bold creative decision that (for me) completely works. It frees the film from the confines of the genre’s mould, and injects much needed playfulness and life into the story (which ittedly does fall into some familiar biopic narrative beats later on).
Also, the film is helped by its willingness to show Robbie as complicated, nasty, and difficult, not just an earnest, tortured soul. Like Rocketman, which is of the better recent rock biopics, the film knows self-flagellation must go hand in hand with self-congratulation.
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No I didn’t anticipate spending my Christmas Day watching a 3.5 hour documentary about Paul Simon, but here we are!
Anyway, the guy’s a genius.
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A can of WG-40 in the garage.
Gromit reading A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WOOF, and Paradise Lost by John STILTON.
The Yorkshire border saying ‘no PARKIN’.
Just some of the many perfect little details that make this a delightful watch 👏👏👏
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Fun! Funny! Silly! Sexy! And that’s fine by me.
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Gorgeously gothic, and executed in such an evocative way that the film (particularly the first half) is absolutely magnificent. It feels as though every frame was steeped in art history. It’s cold, atmospheric, with moments of jet black humour, and though it may become a little plotty in the latter half and lose its edge, it is always anchored by a great villain in Nosferatu, and an absolutely killer performance from Lily Rose Depp.
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Languid and stylish, like most of Guadagnino’s work, and tedious for many I’m sure. However, this is a much darker, surreal film than it looks, with a haunting amount of desperation, loneliness, and frustration baked into every frame. Its despair will linger long after the credits.
Extra points for pulling off the anachronistic ‘Come As You Are’ needle drop with aplomb 👏
The shot of Jason Schwartzmann touching the warmth of Daniel Craig’s seat after he’s left is perfect, it opened up the whole film for me.
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- Little Women
- On the Basis of Sex
- Arbitrage
- All the Money in the World
- Jojo Rabbit
- Uncut Gems
- 1917
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Long Shot
- Won't You Be My Neighbor?
...plus 126 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- The Fabelmans
- TÁR
- Alice, Darling
- Babylon
- The Menu
- She Said
- Rashomon
- Knock at the Cabin
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- The Ghost Writer
...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Chalet Girl
- The Matrix Resurrections
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Worth
- Licorice Pizza
- The Last Duel
- Belfast
- The Nest
- The Exorcist
- Encanto
...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Galaxy Quest
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Babyteeth
- On the Rocks
- Dredd
- Unforgiven
- Wonder Woman 1984
- Tag
- Shallow Grave
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Before Sunrise
- Before Sunset
- Before Midnight
- The Tree of Life
- Do the Right Thing
- Yi Yi
- A Brighter Summer Day
- Stalker
- The Ascent
- Lost in America
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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(in viewing order)
- Moana
- Kinky Boots
- How to Be Single
- The China Syndrome
- Thelma & Louise
- The Favourite
- Brad's Status
- LA 92
- The Conformist
- Stan & Ollie
...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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