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Recent reviews

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2023

  If Oppenheimer depicts the world after the atomic bomb being one headed straight for armageddon, The Boy and the Heron offers a counter vision of a utopic world being rebuilt in its wake. 

  This is clearly a deeply personal project for Miyazaki and because of that I can let the aimlessness of its plotting slide by. It’s got bomb imagery galore, classic fairy tale allusions at every corner as well as an army of Nazi Parakeets. However… we seem to hop from…

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  Afire 2023

  ★★★ Watched 24 Nov 2023

  i said oh lord jesus it’s Afire.

Popular reviews

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  Emma. 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2020 13

  I’m blonde I’m skinny I’m rich and I’m a little bit of a bitch

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  Marie Antoinette 2006

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Dec 2016 8

  I was thrilled to learn that Marie Antoinette was a fan of The Strokes