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3.5/5
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Madly
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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The script cleverly bounces between the two real people, drinking wine and eating [lasagna], and their interior monologues. It’ll make any viewer think about where they went wrong on a date.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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No Other Choice is a wickedly funny lament for a kinder, gentler existence. It’s also ravishing to look at.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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3.5/5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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It’s easy listening, easy watching. A sequin-saturated, warm and funny blast from the past with top notes of drama and tragedy.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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3.5/5
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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It goes to places that might make Hannibal Lecter blink. The darker it becomes, the more implausible it is, but it’s held together by impressive perfomances by Amanda Seyfried, Sydney Sweeney and Brandon Sklenar.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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3.5/5
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Christy
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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Christy has the feel of a B-grade movie, a regular sports biopic, but a good one. It lacks the power of complex, surprising emotional storytelling because the filmmakers have to span decades, cramming in episodes from a busy life.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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3.5/5
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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I think it’s good but not great. The performances are strong, especially by American actor Elle Fanning...the script solid and the direction and cinematography accomplished. But, for this viewer, it falls short on the emotional punch it promises.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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4/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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Chalamet revels in this character’s warts. It’s terrific to see him inhabit such an unpleasant person. It’s one of the best performances of the year in one of the best films of the year.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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4/5
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The Golden Spurtle
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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This is a movie about people doing something they love. In this case, it’s mixing oatmeal, water and salt to make “the epitome of Scottish food”. They come from all over the world and from all walks of life. They are all wonderfully kooky.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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3/5
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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This film is well-made and entertaining but it is not as complex or as thoughtful as earlier Baumbach works...
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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2.5/5
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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This film tosses up some interesting questions, including doctor-patient confidentiality versus duty to the state, but doesn’t explore them in a convincing manner.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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It’s entertaining enough but a bit empty.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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2.5/5
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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It has a couple of impressive moments but overall it is dull, clichéd and heavy-handed.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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2.5/5
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The History of Sound
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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Moments of urgent narrative propulsion are flat. There’s little dramatic conflict. No grit. A tugging love story is buried in there somewhere but it’s been lost in translation. The entire production feels like it’s suffering from drama avoidance syndrome.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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4.5/5
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Eternity
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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The film is fantastical yet grounded in moving truths, warm and heart tugging and laugh-out-loud witty. You exit its world with a glow of satisfaction.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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4/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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Is this second half better than the first? No. But they’re part of a whole. Wicked will go down in history as one of the greatest films of the musical genre, and, refreshingly, with two females and their friendship central to the narrative.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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3/5
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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[If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is] a portrait of exhausted helplessness, as the film’s title so aptly suggests. I’d give this movie two stars, but Byrne’s monumental performance lifts it to three.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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4/5
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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This is an incendiary take [on motherhood], tender and terrible, and we don’t see this perspective enough in film.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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4/5
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Happyend
(2024)
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Nikki Gemmell
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The film is smart, warm and oh, so relatable. Terrifying too, but hopeful.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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3.5/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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The plot broadly follows Shelley’s novel but the director does significant rewrites that I suspect will lead to suggestions this is a woke Frankenstein...I think the changes neutralise the power of one of the most influential works of fiction yet written.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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2.5/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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Del Toro’s Frankenstein is an overlong, relentlessly violent and indulgent mash-up of the original. It takes the bare bones of Shelley’s story and kills its clear, clean clarity.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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3.5/5
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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This one isn’t among Guadagnino’s most resonant, but it’s a film of now; providing a corrective, perhaps, a rebuke to the recent past. It proves that nothing is black and white – or in terms of the oeuvre of a boldly compelling filmmaker, predictable.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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2/5
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Roofman
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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I think more Roofman, less Toys R Us squatter would have made this a more entertaining film.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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3.5/5
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Beast of War
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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It’s old-fashioned film-making and I think we need more of it.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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4/5
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Homebound
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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The film stands powerfully alongside Gallipoli, Withnail and I, Brokeback Mountain and Moonlight as a moving paean to the bindings of brotherhood.
Posted Oct 04, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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You don’t have to be into MMA or sport in general to engage with the characters. Watch it for the human drama and the fine acting.
Posted Oct 04, 2025
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2/5
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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This sequel feels as long as an extended guitar solo you did not ask for, in a concert that started two hours late.
Posted Oct 04, 2025
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4/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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Indeed the whole movie is non-stop for 162 minutes, propelled by the camerawork, the whiplash script, the outstanding performances and the musical score by Jonny Greenwood, from English rock band Radiohead.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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3/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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A sophisticated chase film, with added flavour of society breaking down, yet it’s not done as provocatively as Alex Garland’s Civil War.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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4/5
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Kangaroo
(2025)
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Nikki Gemmell
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Kangaroo follows the predictable path of children’s films, but it’s elevated by the sheer force of its plucky personality, thanks to its dry-as-a-bone wit from scriptwriter Harry Cripps (The Dry, Penguin Bloom.)
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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3.5/5
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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This movie is a pleasure to watch. It is beautifully shot (cinematographer Ben Smithard) and gloriously costumed (costume designer Anna Robbins).
Posted Sep 20, 2025
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3/5
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Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa
(2024)
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Stephen Romei
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[The film] has moments of cruelty and sadness, but also of resistance and beauty.
Posted Sep 20, 2025
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3/5
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Sorry, Baby
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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This is a different approach to trauma drama. Parts of it are too heavy-handed but overall this film, co-produced by Barry Jenkins, director of the 2016 Oscar winner Moonlight, is a strong debut feature.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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3.5/5
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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This is a straightforward, entertaining crime thriller.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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2/5
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Splitsville
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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It takes some interesting ideas, such as monogamy versus open relationships, adds general coupledom anxieties, but fails to follow through on them in any meaningful way.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Roses
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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The dazzling script is thespian heaven for the stars, Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, who put a wicked British spin on this remake of Danny DeVito’s 1989 movie The War of the Roses...
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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3/5
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Kangaroo Island
(2024)
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Stephen Romei
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This is a solid debut film by the advertising creative director (full name Timothy David Piper) who came up with the green gecko character for tyre manufacturer Bridgestone Australia.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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2/5
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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The director throws a lot of dead bodies in the air but doesn’t land them in a convincing storytelling way.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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3/5
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An Ordinary Case
(2024)
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Stephen Romei
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The French film [An Ordinary Case] doesn’t have as much drama in the witness box as I would like, but it makes up for that outside the courtroom.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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4/5
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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This is a fish-out-of-water, odd couple, art and romance dramedy that reminds me of terrific television series such as Hamish Macbeth (1995-97) and Northern Exposure (1990-95). It is charming throughout, humorous and moving.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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3/5
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The Life of Chuck
(2024)
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Stephen Romei
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This film should be better than it is. It relies far too much on spoken exposition... Its best moments are when it is showing – such as Hiddleston and Pajak dancing – rather than telling.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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3.5/5
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Chopper
(2000)
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Stephen Romei
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This movie was Bana’s breakthrough and he is mesmerising.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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3.5/5
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Eddington
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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If you like films you can discuss for hours afterwards – in the sense of What was that all about? – then this one is for you.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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3.5/5
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Weapons
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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This is a smart, entertaining horror movie that will keep you guessing until the end, and probably afterwards.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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2/5
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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The sequel, Freakier Friday, is freakier in the sense that the mind-body switch goes further, but it isn’t funnier, or even funny full stop.
Posted Aug 11, 2025
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3.5/5
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Mr. Burton
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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It’s a solid biopic that simplifies aspects of Richard Burton’s early life and exaggerates others for dramatic effect.
Posted Aug 11, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Friend
(2024)
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Stephen Romei
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...The Friend [is] a thoughtful and tender-hearted adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel.
Posted Aug 04, 2025
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3/5
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Four Letters of Love
(2024)
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Stephen Romei
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This movie is melodramatic, sentimental and overwrought but I enjoyed it.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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2/5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Stephen Romei
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The dialogue is weak, especially the attempts at humour. Nothing much of interest happens. The superhero movie franchise has its ups and downs. This one is definitely on the downside.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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3.5/5
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Auction
(2024)
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Stephen Romei
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I don’t know a lot about art but I’m interested in films and books that interrogate the intricacies and personalities of this world, and this film more than satisfies that interest.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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3/5
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Friendship
(2024)
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Stephen Romei
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We all have our own funny bones and this movie doesn’t tickle mine. Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave does because it is absurdist. Friendship on the other hand feels close to an unsettling reality.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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