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  Yesterday 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 May 2020

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

  Few people have appreciated this for the horror masterpiece it is.

  The first clue is when the guy's friends buy him a really nice acoustic guitar in a hardshell case. That's best part of a grand right there. Who spends that kind of money on their friends, honestly? An oligarch maybe. But not a primary school teacher and the assorted no-hope mates of a failed musician.

  There's clearly more to this than meets the eye.

  Then he gets it out…

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  Die Hard 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Dec 2021

  It is not a Christmas film.

  It is THE Christmas film.

Recent reviews

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  Maestro 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  I absolutely loved this. It's complex, ambitious, sad and very romantic. Carey Mulligan cannot put a foot wrong and Bradley Cooper really is a superb filmmaker. I can't wait to see what he does next.

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  Napoleon 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Nov 2023

  I'll be honest, it was the end of a long day and I slept through large parts of this. The battles looked pretty epic though and Vanessa Kirby seemed to be doing a great job, so I gave it the star rating I imagined I would probably have given it if I'd seen the whole thing.

  Thank god I don't write film reviews for a living, I'd be rubbish at it.

Popular reviews

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2023

  Well that started as 4.5 stars then lost half a star for every half hour it went over the maximum length any film should reasonably be. Get your shit together, Marty!

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  Dream Scenario 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Nov 2023 1

  Just loved this. Very Truman Show/Being John Malkovich in how it let a single idea play out. After this and Massive Talent, I'm very much on board the late-period Cage bus and excited to see where it goes next.