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FILM REVIEWS


Dec 24, 2022
GLASS ONION
From the beginning the picture is just slightly off: there are too many celebrity cameos, the actual plot takes an awful long time to get...
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Dec 22, 2022
BARDO: FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS
Bardo indulges too much in its own surreal idiosyncrasies and has hardly any interest in satisfying anyone else but the director and his...
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Dec 20, 2022
THE SWIMMERS
It's never clear what exactly drives the protagonists, both because the script doesn't address it properly and because the actors are...
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Dec 19, 2022
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO
You'd be hard-pressed to call Pinocchio a bad film, but it's a lot closer to a let-down than it is to a triumph, partly because Guillermo...
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Dec 5, 2022
THE GOOD NURSE
The Good Nurse contains enough harmless, easily digestible entertainment to more or less hold your attention, but there is no excuse for...
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Nov 29, 2022
MY FATHER'S DRAGON
Children up to a certain age will no doubt lap up the quaint characters and colourful designs, but overal My Father's Dragon is too naïve...
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Nov 22, 2022
THE WONDER
Despite a wonderful sense of mood, an excellent premise and faultless casting, The Wonder never truly grows on you. There is a lot of...
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Nov 13, 2022
IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?
I could have done without the often condescending voice-over but that is a minor quibble in an excellent, thorough movie essay. I am a...
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Nov 8, 2022
ENOLA HOLMES 2
The budget, the stunts and the stakes are all raised in Enola Holmes 2, but it's to the detriment of the charms the original possessed....
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Nov 3, 2022
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
This German adaptation settles for broad pacifist themes and mostly forgets to add the moments of quiet poetic power that made the 1930...
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Oct 30, 2022
WENDELL & WILD
Visually the picture's world-building is impressive, but it doesn't back that up with a coherent, easy to follow, compelling central...
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Jul 24, 2022
THE GRAY MAN
The Gray Man is one of the most tedious, predictable, irrelevant movies I have ever seen in my life: it will put you firmly into a coma....
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May 1, 2022
OPERATION MINCEMEAT
I'm not saying I didn't enjoy Operation Mincemeat but I won't be thinking about the film often anymore. An intriguing true story goes a...
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