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Godzilla
A film of enjoyable moments hamstrung by deadweight characters. →
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Perfect in every imaginable way. →
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Blue Jasmine
Deeply uncomfortable watch exacerbated by a tone that seems to be going for comedy. Blanchett brilliant but, urgh, weird film. →
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Nebraska
Funny and charming drama, beautifully shot and performed. →
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Plague Dogs
A heartwarming animation in which two runaway dogs DEFINITELY make it to the island and survive. That definitely happened. →
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The Wind Rises
Mixed feelings about this; felt morose & sentimental at times, sweet and hopeful at others. An odd last film from Miyazaki. →
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Hell’s Angels
Interesting from a film history perspective, but the performances and script have…not aged well. →
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Enchanted
A fun first half, but once the shtick has worn off you’re left with an average romcom with some dubious messages about love. →
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Watership Down
The only film to ever make me wish I had children, just so I could make them watch this and traumatise the shit out of them. →
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After Life
Japanese ‘90s lo-fi flick in which the recently dead must reenact their happiest memory. Bit like an undead Be Kind, Rewind. →
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Thief
Michael Mann’s first film is like a statement of intent for all his future films; wet streets, coffee shop conversations and all. →
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Phantom of the Paradise
Utterly bonkers ‘70s rock opera adaptation of both Faust and Phantom of the Opera. Both dreadful and amazing. →
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Thirst
First half of this Korean vampire film is brilliant, reminiscent of Cronos. Second half gets a bit too wacky, diminishing the horror. →
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Foxfire
Takes the promising material of a violent ‘50s girl gang and slowly, boringly drives into the ground. Unenlightening and bland. →
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Clockwise
Like an English Falling Down. Cleese is brilliant, and Stephen Moore excels as a teacher incapable of completing a sentence. →
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Amélie
The nightmarish tale of a woman who gaslights a local greengrocer and manipulates friends into unhappy love affairs. Chilling. →
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Lay the Favourite
A startlingly mediocre comedy with the never-funny Bruce Willis and a miscast Rebecca Hall as a ditzy ex-stripper. Awful. →
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Porco Rosso
Love it. Something a bit “Bank Holiday morning ‘60s Herbie” about it but it’s hard to place. →
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
Absurdly, enchantingly adorable. →
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Casablanca
Weirdly, my first viewing. Like watching a film where the whole script is made up of quotable lines from other films. →