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Recent reviews

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  Wish 2023

  ★★ Watched 19 Nov 2023

  Nice vocals, some pretty animation and an adorable star make it likeable enough but, unlike so much of the 100 years of Disney it's celebrating, it's utterly devoid of originality

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  The Book of Solutions 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Oct 2023

  I can fix him

Popular reviews

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  Mysterious Skin 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Aug 2012 13

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

  Trailer

  This film is tough. This film is really, really tough. Ignore for a moment that it deals with child abuse, teenage prostitution, rape and the empty futility of a life wasted, and consider the core message itself: that trauma is unavoidable, that one day we’re all going to suffer some sort of tragedy and that, no matter how we attempt to deal with that tragedy, it will always be there, shaping our lives and dragging us back into the…

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  Y Tu Mamá También 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Apr 2013 15

  Directed by - Alfonso Cuarón
  Written by - Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón
  Starring - Maribel Verdú, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Juan Carlos Remolina, Silverio Palacios, Andrés Almeida, Ana López Mercado and María Aura
  Narrated by - Daniel Giménez Cacho

  Sex; it’s sticky, it’s embarrassing and – even in these enlightened days of liberalism and pornography at the click of a button – it’s treated like some sort of shameful taboo by a large chunk of society. There are…