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  Petite Maman 2021

  ★★½ Watched by Blaze Amaze 18 May 2022

  La Párêntte Tràppē

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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★ Watched by Blaze Amaze 08 May 2022

  Doctor Strange in Nothing Nowhere Not At All

Popular reviews

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  Prisoners 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched by Blaze Amaze 20 May 2020

  Supremely fucked up, psychologically profound and disturbing, while also being an absolutely enthralling detective mystery, Prisoners is perhaps the best instance I’ve ever seen of a filmmaker trusting the audience to make their own decisions on the morality of character’s actions. Keller, Alex, and even Loki are all monsters, even if the film won’t tell you that they are. The cinematography is stunning (shoutout Deakins), and Hugh Jackman, Paul Dani, and Jake Gyllenhall deserved more awards attention than they received for…

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ★★★★ Watched by Blaze Amaze 07 Jan 2020

  The Safdie Brothers are masters of chaos, and that’s on full display with Uncut Gems, a frenetic, claustrophobic and atypical character study that serves as a cautionary tale on greed, and a sleazy and skuzzy deep-dive into how people think they become invincible when given power. The brothers’s work may not seem too showey at first, (much of their visual style can be described as “close ups of guys screaming at each other”) but their way of telling stories sticks…