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  Rimini 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Oct 2022 2

  Ulrich Seidl takes us on a journey to hell, manifested as a deserted Italian tourist town in winter, following a narcissistic hotel-crooner who is willing to do anything for a large bottle of Ratzeputz.

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Oct 2022

  Memories and mini-DV from a childhood holiday, a distrait father who obviously has bigger issues than what we're allowed to see in the frame. I'm shocked by how much Charlotte Wells manages to say without saying it.

Popular reviews

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  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Sep 2020 2

  The pain of taking your new girlfriend to meet your parents for the first time. And/or the pain of going on a long excruciating trip to rural America (hillbilly country) with your new boyfriend to meet his horrible parents for the first time. The horror of being in a relationship with another human being at all. Learning to know that person, his least flattering traits, his inadequacy, his parents, the miserable place he grew up. The terror of having your…

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  Cadaver 2020

  ★ Watched 24 Oct 2020

  A good screenwriter could have done a lot with this premise - but the execution here is just completely dull and spiritless. And worst of all, it's mind-numbingly predictable. Somehow the high-ish production value with all the CGI backgrounds makes it worse; this would have come off much better as a DIY production from a bunch of enthusiastic 23-year-olds. Or at least, easier to excuse.