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  Air 2023

  ★★★ Watched 29 Aug 2023

  Corporate action, yay! Who doesn't love a meeting room negotiation scene or three.

  I'm surprised how much I enjoyed this, actually. Really not a lot happens, but it's told well with characters you can connect with. Lots of 80s nostalgia bits that flew over my head - they certainly went to town on the soundtrack - and it would've been a better film for hitting the 90 minute mark rather than indulging the runtime a little. A good mid-week streamer.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Aug 2023

  Intense - in a way you don't expect a three hour biopic to be. There's a lot of ground to cover, and it's done superbly. The pace is on another level, and it's the kind of movie that would rewards pre-reading some background, because otherwise you'd come into this pretty damn cold on stuff that really needs some background and context.

  Where it falls short is the flip-side of that pacing - there's so much to go through, this could've…

Popular reviews

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  Black Widow 2021

  ★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2021 1

  I vote Florence Pugh for next Bond.

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  Third Person 2013

  ★ Watched 24 Aug 2020

  This was so tedious, I actually enjoyed doing the dishes more.