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  Never Rarely Sometimes Always 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched by Scott Anderson 20 Jul 2020

  Quietly, profoundly powerful. Every single frame is raw and stunningly real. Devastating at times, yet also inspiring and beautiful when viewed through the lens of how friendship, strength and empathy can get you through anything. Featuring a remarkable debut performance from Sidney Flanigan, this is a masterpiece soaked in an understated yet palpable outrage derived from knowing how difficult it is to be a girl in a man's world.

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Scott Anderson 21 Feb 2020 6

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

  It's the same film as the first time I saw it, yet I could feel something different as I pressed play on Parasite this time around. Something palpable, like it carried a different weight post-Oscars rather than just prior to the award ceremony when it was the underdog that surely wouldn't bust through as the first foreign film ever to win the top prize. It occurred to me how unfair this was, to view the same work of art in…

Popular reviews

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  Interstellar 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched by Scott Anderson 04 Nov 2014 75

  I have been staring at this blank canvas for a good half hour now, and I still can't find the words. How the hell do I start a review about a film like this? I walked out of the cinema in a daze, baffled and thrilled and grinning like a damn fool. My car is a two door red Honda Civic and yet I approached a white SUV with my keys out as if it was my ticket home because…

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  Mission: Impossible II 2000

  ★½ Watched by Scott Anderson 31 Aug 2014 17

  Slow motion.

  Tom Cruise on a motorcycle shooting guns.

  Slow motion.

  Tom Cruise in a fist fight.

  Slow motion.

  Explosion.

  Car flips over.

  Explosion.

  Slow motion.

  Tom Cruise's hair.

  Slow motion.

  Explosion.

  Slow motion.