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Annie Hall 1977
Confession: I am 37 and this is the first time I have seen Annie Hall. I don't feel able to give it a star rating.
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Apocalypto 2006
Mel Gibson is proper mental, right? And this is like glimpse of the edges of someone's insanity. So obviously It makes for a great intense watch. And the best face eating jaguar scene I've seen in ages.
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Cemetery Junction 2010
Riddled with cliché and Gervais's increasing overblown sense of his own importance. A few laughs, though, and I think time will be kind to it.
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Copenhagen 2002
Did a decent job of making what is essentially a script on legs cinematic Though there was too much exposition (by necessity, really) and too much of Rea and Craig walking away from each other (and Annis trailing behind). Loved the way it explained some of the key tenets of quantum physics with simply economy.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2010
Did the expected and shaved off the sharp edges from the book and added closure and dubious morality where it wasn't necessary. Not funny enough, either.
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Dreams of a Life 2012
An easy film to 'own' in many respects, as we've all known people like Joyce, and because it makes you immediately seek out those you love and hold onto them with a new kind of ferocity.
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Drive 2011
Perfectly fine, but the adulation this has received has actually turned me off this. Much like Bronson, it's a shiny, empty thing that slips from your grasp if you try and look at it for too long; it's also style over substance once removed: it references nothing but films, and filmic ideas.
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Garden State 2004
Trod a dangerous line between being quirky and outright annoying, and slipped one too many times. In no way earned the right to explore the abyssal nature of the central theme.