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  News of the World 2020

  

  Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★½

  Snooze of the World.

  A wholly fitting vehicle for the dependable good guy Hanks but the traditional vibe is a surprise choice for Greengrass.

  There's some terrible back projection in…

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  Thunder Road 2018

  

  Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★★

  First off, I have to say that I haven't seen the original short that this full length feature is spawned from, but what going in blind means is that I…

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  Oblivion 2013

  

  Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★ 4

  I struggle with Tom Cruise. I don't really like him but....he keeps making movies I want to see and some that I even really enjoy.

  Let's look at the evidence;…

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  Promising Young Woman 2020

  

  Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★ 3

  I can't believe Emerald Fennell won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for this shallow, cipher-ridden, nowhere near as clever or as shocking as it thinks it is bollocks. Well no,…

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  Inventing Anna 2022

  

  Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★½

  This series is overlong at 9 episodes and hell, some of those episodes are overlong too, but it's a perfectly bingeable watch that has you turning on a sixpence between…

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  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2016

  

  TajLV ★★★½

  "This war's like fucking a gorilla, you keep on going until the gorilla wants to stop." ~ General Hollanek

  Here, directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra team up for their…

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  Bigbug 2022

  

  davidehrlich ★½

  The fact that “Amélie” director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s first movie in nine years is quietly being dumped on Netflix without festival play or advance press of any kind after Jeunet insisted…

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  Mascots 2016

  

  The Reel House ★★

  Woof, I really don’t know what went wrong with this one. Firstly I do want to praise the cast as I seem to always do with Christopher Guest’s films. The…