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Recent reviews

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  The Killer 2023

  Watched 04 Sep 2023

  Was not expecting the Fiona Bruce cameo

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  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023

  Watched 31 Aug 2023

  An utterly delightful and surprisingly faithful adaptation. I had never made the connection that both Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson share a love for Russian doll-style story-within-a-story-within-a-story narratives. Made for a perfect marriage of sensibilities.

  It also has a recurring production design joke that made me chuckle very heartily.

Popular reviews

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  My Cousin Rachel 2017

  ★★★ Watched 07 Jun 2017 1

  I ain't saying she's a gold digger
  But she ain't messing with no broke 18th-century aristocrat

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  T2 Trainspotting 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2017 3

  The original Trainspotting was an exercise in youthful vibrancy. A sequel set twenty years later loses some of that vibrancy by necessity. This is a Danny Boyle film so obviously it's stylish as fuck, and it is consistently funny (with the original film's sense of crude anarchic realism – it features maybe the most darkly funny suicide attempt ever filmed) but this is fundamentally a sad film, and in essence a two-hour epilogue to the first film. Modern middle-aged male melancholy. It's kind of heartbreaking.

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