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Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.
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Definitely the best film about basic numeracy out there.
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Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.
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Me after watching The French Dispatch: 'Well I didn't think Wes Anderson could get any more Wes Anderson, but I still loved it.'
Me after watching Asteroid City: 'Well I didn't think Wes Anderson could get any more Wes Anderson, but I still loved it.'
Me after The Phoenician Scheme: 'Well I didn't think Wes Anderson could get even more Wes Anderson..."
Mia Threapleton's sardonic counterweight to the generally uninteresting Del Toro is what saves this film. That and Michael Cera, of course.
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A complete deconstruction of exposition with discordant snapshots of a tenuous but honest romance. Unfortunately, the characters suffer as a result.
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This review may contain spoilers.
It's the fact that you can transpose the ending of this onto the ending of A New Hope. Iconic.
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Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.
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Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.
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Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.
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Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.
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Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.
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Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.
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Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.
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Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.
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Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.
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I know they're all Dutch but every spineless UN commander has the same accent and it's kind of jarring. Otherwise crushing film.
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I have seen the light and it's shaped like two Michael B. Jordans.
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Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.
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Could have been so great if not for some of the cliched dialogue and coincidences, also if it weren't blatant military ogling. Regardless, literally has some of the best action sequences ever - insanely tense, technically impressive and very fucken cool.
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Some of the writing is hilariously dull and lazy and some of the visual effects are completely illusion-breaking. It's not the worst Marvel film I've seen, I'd rather them try something more grounded than whatever the fuck Thor: Love and Thunder was. The story / lore / characters are kinda intriguing, but also a bit out there.
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Probably a better showcase of why animation is dying more than the most recent Disney failures.
Like I get it, this film is deeply, deeply (life of the charts) unserious, and that's fine, but I doesn't have to be deeply, deeply lazy as well.
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Gotta think about how well this has aged considering the phrases "be gay do crime" and "they both match each other's freak" did not exist 30 years ago.
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A big moment for rodents, flip phones, and Jack Nicholson's bucket hat.
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S+ tier performance from Yamada as Lady Macbeth, shuffling around like Jabba the Hutt, being the evilest motherfucker of all time and shit.
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Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.
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They're all out here, acting and shit.
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Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.
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That moment when a character and performance instantly becomes one of your favourites.
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One of those where the man is more interesting than the movie
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Not a perfect film and there are some uncomfortable scenes that seem pretty unnecessary and way too in-your-face to get any greater message across, but still. It has that scene where Thewlis' silhouette lingers in the alley as the two Scots chase each other away. It has the security guard scene. It has 'Pizza Delivery Man'. And of course, it has that ending shot too.
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Dr. Berger biggest legend in all of film.
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Watched on Tuesday March 11, 2025.
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Watched on Monday March 10, 2025.
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Linda Hamilton mewing expert.
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Dead movie from a dying studio. Not joking, right now: More soulless than the MCU (I am ready to renege on this statement once I watch Brave New World)
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Wish the final one hundred and seventy-two minutes were as good as the first two.
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Watched on Friday March 7, 2025.
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Sure it was groundbreaking for its time, but for what in essence is such a simple plot, the Seven Samurai for all intents and purposes should not have had the lasting impact it has had nor the legendary status it has achieved. But through both Kurosawa's direction and the performances on screen that this relatively simple defense of a sixteenth-century Japanese village becomes far more enveloping than almost every modern action film. And while I could wax lyrical about the performances, the magnitude that each ronin has on the story, or the final fifteen minutes, which Star Wars owes its life to. In truth it's Mifune's Kikuchiyo who is running the film back to front. His presence is sometimes distracting, his performance is sometimes over-the-top. Yet when I think back at my two or three favourite moments in the entire film, Kikuchiyo is front and centre in all of them.
While the scene in front of the burning building is emotionally destroying, his intense monologue at the ninety minute mark is the only example you really need: Here is a character who hitherto this point has been presented as nothing more than a court jester, a source of entertainment to the other samurai and comic relief to the audience. Who, while you don't necessarily doubt his fighting skills, seems much less capable than his six contemporaries and is too piss-drunk to show himself off anyways. A boy amongst men (even Katsuhiro). And yet, once adorned with samurai armour, with the camera latched onto his close-up with no way of breaking eye , the perspective completely changes. As he delivers his speech a deathly intensity, he demands authority from the others in the room and the audience watching on. Make no mistake, it's the same character. His monologue is appropriately erratic and reckless, but in one short speech Kikuchiyo immediately becomes the most important character in the whole film. That's transformative. That's something only Mifune could pull off.
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I would have loved to see this go into the seventies, instead of yet another iteration of 61'-66' Bob, which, while good, plays it as straight as you can imagine. Like what is this movie trying to say? Other than "see how cool Timothée Chalamet looks when we put a pair of sunglasses on him".
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*Since the start of 2023
- The Phoenician Scheme
- Sinners
- Nosferatu
- The Brutalist
- Anora
- Kinds of Kindness
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Challengers
- Dune: Part Two
- The Zone of Interest
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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]]>Films that evoke, or are well suited towards music of the post-rock genre.
]]>My top 250 films of all time. (UPDATED TO 250 22/1/24)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Only Yesterday
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Parasite
- Princess Mononoke
- Whiplash
- 12 Angry Men
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- The Apartment
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Parasite
- The Apartment
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Moonlight
- All About Eve
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Casablanca
- No Country for Old Men
- Schindler's List
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
...plus 87 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A little list that probably should have been made a while ago.
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Parasite
- Whiplash
- Black Swan
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
- Coco
- Moonlight
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Incendies
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Why not.
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Drive My Car
- Decision to Leave
- May December
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- RRR
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
- Memoir of a Snail
- Poor Things
- The Banshees of Inisherin
...plus 135 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>We're over halfway through the year, so it's time. LOADS more to added (duh).
- Memoir of a Snail
- Dune: Part Two
- The Brutalist
- The Outrun
- Challengers
- Look Back
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Anora
- The Wild Robot
- Crossing
...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Ranking the 63 Walt Disney Animation Studios films. (Dinosaur; not The Wild)
- The Emperor's New Groove
- The Lion King
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hercules
- Lilo & Stitch
- Tangled
- Mulan
- The Great Mouse Detective
- Fantasia
- Wreck-It Ralph
...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>There are still quite a few big contenders to watch at the start of 2024 when I can, but I thought I may as well get this out there before the year's end. -Updated May 2024 with still a few big gunners to go.
- May December
- Poor Things
- The Iron Claw
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Fallen Leaves
- Oppenheimer
- The Boy and the Heron
- The Zone of Interest
...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- May December
- Inherent Vice
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- The Cat Returns
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Toy Story 4
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
- Nope
- Only Yesterday
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Bicycle Thieves
- The Florida Project
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Fargo
- It's Such a Beautiful Day
- How Green Was My Valley
- Young Frankenstein
- Shoplifters
- The Seventh Continent
- L'Argent
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Only Yesterday
- Princess Mononoke
- Grave of the Fireflies
- My Neighbor Totoro
- The Wind Rises
- Porco Rosso
- The Boy and the Heron
- When Marnie Was There
- From Up on Poppy Hill
- Kiki's Delivery Service
...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Avengers: Infinity War
- Avengers: Endgame
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Doctor Strange
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Captain America: Civil War
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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