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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by John Nugent 04 May 2022

  Fourth time around, and let me tell you, it only gets better

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  Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood 2022

  ★★★★ Watched by John Nugent 19 Mar 2022

  Richard Linklater has always had his head in the past. Every era of his life has been mined for cinematic treasures, be it high school (Dazed And Confused), university (Everybody Wants Some!!), early adulthood (Before Sunrise), or pretty much all of the above (Boyhood). This, his 21st feature, zeroes in on only a single summer, but it’s no less vivid for it; if anything, it feels like his most personal film in years.

  As with Waking Life and A Scanner…

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  My Cousin Rachel 2017

  ★★★ Watched by John Nugent 07 Jun 2017

  I ain't saying she's a gold digger
  But she ain't messing with no broke 18th-century aristocrat

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  T2 Trainspotting 2017

  ★★★½ Watched by John Nugent 19 Jan 2017 3

  The original Trainspotting was an exercise in youthful vibrancy. A sequel set twenty years later loses some of that vibrancy by necessity. This is a Danny Boyle film so obviously it's stylish as fuck, and it is consistently funny (with the original film's sense of crude anarchic realism – it features maybe the most darkly funny suicide attempt ever filmed) but this is fundamentally a sad film, and in essence a two-hour epilogue to the first film. Modern middle-aged male melancholy. It's kind of heartbreaking.