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  The Green Knight 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Campbell George 29 Jul 2021 8

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

  Growing up, I read about a lot of different knights. Some of them saved Middle Earth, others Alagaësia. Some of them were even seated at Arthur's Round Table. Some were good and some were evil. But few were stuck in the middle. Fledging, maybe. Unsteady, definitely. But none fall as consistently, humanly short as Gawain.

  At every turn, he is weighed and found wanting. When Essel proclaims her love for him, his heart is insufficient to proclaim it back. When…

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  La Collectionneuse 1967

  ★★★★ Watched by Campbell George 26 Jan 2022

  There's a hundred and four days of French vacation
  'Til London comes along just to end it
  So the annual problem for Rohmer's generation
  Is finding no way to spend it

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  Nightmare Alley 2021

  ★★½ Watched by Campbell George 25 Jan 2022 1

  Maaaaan, I really wanted to like this one. The sets were picture perfect and the carny vibe was locked in for the first twenty minutes. Script is a little rough but it’s bursting with energy, even if that energy isn’t quite sure where it wants to go. 

  I can see why 90% of the trailer focuses on the events of the carnival because as soon as it’s left behind, so is much of the cast that makes the story worth…

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  Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched by Campbell George 23 Jan 2022

  Throughout the movie, a phrase from 2046 kept turning over in my mind. “Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.” Wong Kar-wai was absolutely right. This movie is full of right people at wrong times and wrong people at right times.

  But, what I really loved about it, is that these people meet at the right time to help each other and love each other in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. Or at least every bar mitzvah

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  Chungking Express 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Campbell George 24 Jan 2022 2

  Not many movies inspire me to put them on after scrolling past a few stills from them on the TL. 
  But this one does