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  The Creator 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2023

  I wanted it to be a five star classic.

  It thinks it is a five star classic.

  Sadly it's only a 3.5 star very good film. Too much deus ex machina (lol) and telling-not-showing for the intent to come across as well as it might.

  A shame: I really wanted to love this.

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  Jurassic World Dominion 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Jun 2022

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

  Jurassic Park, the novel by Michael Crichton, was published in 1990. I must have picked it up a couple of years later when, as a dinosaur-obsessed 10-11 year old, I heard about this book about dinosaurs being made real. It was, perhaps, not intended to be read by an 11 year old, but I had always read ahead of my age. And then I discovered that one of the central characters was a dinosaur-obsessed kid called Tim.

  And then I…

Popular reviews

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  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2020

  This is a very Taika Waititi film. Anyone expect Ragnarok might be disappointed. Anyone expecting the spiritual continuation of Hunt for the Wilderpeople will be in their element.

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  Yesterday 2019

  ★★★ Watched 30 Jun 2019

  If you're writing a love letter to The Beatles, you need more than love. But Yesterday's conceit is bizarre. I'm not convinced it really works, but it's delightfully told, with winsome actors and, inevitably, a superb soundtrack. It won't change the world: life goes on.