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Slow paced comedy
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America
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on: 28 Sep 2024
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Probably hilarious if you are Finnish or Russian but a bit weird for me as the gags seem obvious and laboured but in a kind-of good way
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Not a political war film. Inoffensive to a fault
by: Roger CO
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Civil War
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on: 20 Sep 2024
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A proposed civil war in today's USA is just the background to what essentially is a Deliverance style road movie about a set of four journalists travelling through an strange landscape. ...
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Discovering poetry and murder
by: Roger CO
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Poetry
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on: 15 Sep 2024
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A good story about an older woman trying to extend her life experience through poetry while grappling with her live-in teenage grandson's social awkwardness problems and their consequences.
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Brilliant Modern-day Gangster Movie
by: Roger CO
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Eastern Promises
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on: 08 Sep 2024
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With Russian emigrees in London providing the gangster sex trafficing background a young woman has to confront them. ...
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Entertaining observation but silly story
by: rogerco
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Robot Dreams
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on: 04 Sep 2024
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it seems ridiculous to say it about a tale of a dog and his robot friend, but it was a bit unbelievable at times.
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Not much to like
by: rogerco
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The Fabelmans
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on: 18 Aug 2024
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Flawed because I didn't really like the family or any of the people in it. ...
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Existential Angst
by: Roger CO
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Lights in the Dusk
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on: 07 Aug 2024
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If Camus had made films this might have been one
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Korean Hitchcock
by: rogerco
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Mother
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on: 27 Jul 2024
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Ultimately did he do it?
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Mildly swinging amusement
by: rogerco
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Rotten to the Core
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on: 20 Jul 2024
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Mid 1960s cusp of the old staid and new swinging styles
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Amusing
by: rogerco
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The Rutles : All You Need Is Cash
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on: 22 Jun 2024
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Entertaining light spoof, some jokes a bit repetitive and obvious (eg the interviewer chasing the camera)
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Rating "The Housemaid"
by: Roger CO
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The Housemaid
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on: 08 Jun 2024
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Rating "Phoenix"
by: Roger CO
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Phoenix
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on: 01 Jun 2024
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Enjoyable in a simple style
by: rogerco
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The Other Side of Hope
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on: 28 May 2024
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Echos of Wes Anderson in the stylised performaces and mis-en-scene. ...
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Absurd Tosh
by: Roger CO
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Snowpiercer
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on: 11 May 2024
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Well it really is total rubbish
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Charming and engrossing
by: rogerco
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Alcarràs
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on: 20 Apr 2024
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A charming picture of the tensions of extended family life against a background of external threat in a gorgeous setting.
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Damaged people in rural setting
by: rogerco
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The Quiet Girl
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on: 13 Apr 2024
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A slow and slightly intense movie about a withdrawn child finding her place in the world. ...
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Brilliant Beautiful and a bit Tragic
by: Roger CO
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The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
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on: 16 Mar 2024
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A wonderfully crafted film and a good story set mostly in 1950's Rio with episodes from the parallel lives of two close sisters intertwined. ...
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Slow and unsatisfying
by: rogerco
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Perfect Days
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on: 09 Mar 2024
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Slow paced, minimal dialogue, at first intriguing as we discover his fixed daily life, but ultimately we learn nothing - why is he living this happy life, what ws his past that brought him to these sunlit uplands. ...
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Better than the previous version
by: rogerco
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Red Dragon
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on: 15 Feb 2024
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Much better made than Manhunter and the prelude with Agent Graham capturing Hannibal provides a nice lead-in. ...
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Long Languid Courtroom Drama
by: rogerco
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Saint Omer
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on: 27 Jan 2024
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Long(ish) and languid with a lot left unsaid in terms of the resonances between Lawrences life and Rama's.
Ultimately unsatisfying
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Weird
by: rogerco
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EO
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on: 20 Jan 2024
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A different way of telling a story with an animal as the lead character
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She was lucky, society was sick
by: rogerco
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Happening
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on: 14 Jan 2024
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Convincing slice of life for a female student in early 60's France (outside Paris). ...
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A small gem
by: rogerco
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Oncle Yanco
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on: 06 Jan 2024
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Another gem from Agnes, and a glimpse of an unusual corner of 1967 San Fransisco
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Good but not satisfying
by: rogerco
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Close
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on: 06 Jan 2024
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Good, but not as good as the commercial reviews make out. ...
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A bit American, but some fun
by: Roger CO
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Leo
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on: 01 Jan 2024
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Watched with Cerys and Rowan on a wet new years day
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