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Recent reviews

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  Carry-On 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2024 9

  This is better than most Best Picture contenders this year. A new Christmas classic.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Nov 2024 1

  With imagery quite literally conjured from the deepest bowels of darkness, it’s clear why Nosferatu has been on the mind of Robert Eggers since he saw F. W. Murnau’s silent classic at the impressionable age of nine. The director’s fourth feature is his most assured and accomplished, an impeccably crafted, knowingly humorous, and perhaps too-rigid odyssey into the depths of true evil where one can feel Eggers’ obsessions flow through every nocturnal frame. While The Northman was evidence he could…

Popular reviews

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  West Side Story 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2021 8

  Only Steven Spielberg could make a shot of someone standing in a puddle one of the most beautiful images of the year.

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  The Red Turtle 2016

  ★★★½ Added 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  First 78 minutes of The Red Turtle: this is a very nice movie
  Last 2 minutes: I am emotionally wrecked and have a new perspective on life