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2.5/5
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El Conde
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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Oh no, Pablo Larraín made an Adam McKay film.
Posted Sep 22, 2023
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4/5
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Theater Camp
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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There is too much truth in this art.
Posted Sep 08, 2023
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4.5/5
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Past Lives
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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A tender and mesmerising romance with an absolutely sensational lead performance from Lee.
Posted Sep 01, 2023
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4/5
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Sanctuary
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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A twisted psychosexual rom-com with two supremely magnetic leads. Because hey, love hurts.
Posted Aug 25, 2023
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3.5/5
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Frank and Frank (or The Valley and the Walrus: Ruminations on the Mystery from Soup to Nuts)
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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Exceptionally funny and amiable buddy flick.
Posted Aug 08, 2023
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4/5
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BlackBerry
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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Excellent. More inventive and with more invective than anticipated.
Posted Aug 04, 2023
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3/5
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Sisu
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Most movies would benefit from having more scenes where Nazis are mercilessly mowed down. This movie would benefit from having anything in addition to that.
Posted Jul 28, 2023
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4/5
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Talk to Me
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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Inventive, surprising and just mean enough to let the audience know this film isn't effing around.
Posted Jul 28, 2023
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4/5
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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An absolute achievement in spectacle and Swiss-watch storytelling.
Posted Jul 28, 2023
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3/5
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Extraction 2
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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Extremely tedious when someone isn't being stabbed or exploding. But the explosions? (*Whistles*)
Posted Jun 23, 2023
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4.5/5
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Reality
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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A fantastically compelling look at the banality (and occasional affability) of how power is wielded by the government, and the ordinary, flawed people who find themselves in its craw.
Posted Jun 16, 2023
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3/5
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Influencer
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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It zigged everytime I thought it would zag.
Posted Jun 09, 2023
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3/5
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The Kids
(2021)
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Simon Miraudo
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An appropriate reckoning with the damage wrought by Kids. But it never wrestles with the idea that Kids might be a worthwhile and impactful movie all the same. I wish it could have held two complicated ideas in its head at the same time.
Posted Jun 02, 2023
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4/5
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Petrol
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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An absolutely beguiling and emotionally involving mystery with a brilliant sonic texture. I loved being invited into its unnerving spaces.
Posted May 26, 2023
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2.5/5
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Renfield
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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Is this... a bit? A movie has to be better than a bit.
Posted May 26, 2023
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3.5/5
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Limbo
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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A strangely compelling minimalist mystery that gives you everything you need, if not everything you want.
Posted May 19, 2023
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4/5
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Infinity Pool
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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Super entertaining and deliciously gory, with another stellar Mia Goth turn. But this modern riff on Westworld isn't as novel or transgressive as you'd hope. Infinity Pool is extreme but not subversive.
Posted May 12, 2023
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3.5/5
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It Is In Us All
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Thanks to its incredible tone and texture, the film feels lived in. You really can go home again. But as the film asks: Should you?
Posted May 12, 2023
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4/5
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Olga
(2021)
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Simon Miraudo
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A really impressive and taut character drama about the single-minded determination required for athletic success, and how sports is political, anyway you slice it.
Posted May 05, 2023
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3.5/5
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The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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A beautifully made comedy with a dash of dark whimsy.
Posted Apr 28, 2023
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4/5
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Air
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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The film is a cracking tick-tock account of how the sausage gets made in the world of sports marketing, but it also has the very 'movie-ish' pleasures of watching fun actors have fun conversations.
Posted Mar 31, 2023
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2.5/5
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Empire of Light
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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A leaden screenplay hinders the work of brilliant craftspeople, Olivia Colman included. The real way to write a love letter to the movies is to write a cracking script.
Posted Mar 24, 2023
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4.5/5
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John Wick: Chapter 4
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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A return to the baroque melodrama of Chapter 2. This is opera.
Posted Mar 24, 2023
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2.5/5
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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The nostalgic pull of the era's footage really talks to me now that I'm older. But compared to the book, Meet Me in the Bathroom: The Movie is spread far too thin.
Posted Mar 17, 2023
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3/5
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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There are genuine moments of genius, but I wish it had been as jam-packed with jokes (considering the too-long running time) as a typical Weird Al tune (or even The Vidiot from UHF).
Posted Mar 17, 2023
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3.5/5
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To Leslie
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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A stellar, charismatic, challenging, empathetic performance (surrounded by a constellation of appealing supporting actors) in a movie that is otherwise just fine.
Posted Mar 10, 2023
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4/5
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Pearl
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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An amazing technicolour nightmare.
Posted Mar 03, 2023
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3.5/5
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Creed III
(2023)
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Simon Miraudo
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Probably the first Creed (or Rocky) movie that would have benefitted from a therapy montage, but Creed III still knows how to play the undying franchise's greatest hits.
Posted Mar 02, 2023
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4/5
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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An affecting and effective argument that there's no separating art and politics; that art is, in fact, politics.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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5/5
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Aftersun
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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A perfect film.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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4/5
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Women Talking
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Though it's sometimes at risk of feeling too academic, Sarah Polley and the incredible cast make sure to imbue it with real feeling and characterisation so that the harrowing human drama lands with an impact.
Posted Feb 17, 2023
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3/5
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7 Days
(2021)
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Simon Miraudo
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It already feels like a period piece set 100 years in the past, but Karan Soni and Geraldine Viswanathan (well accustomed to period pieces thanks to Miracle Workers) are always worth watching.
Posted Feb 10, 2023
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3/5
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Broker
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Another thoughtful drama about a cobbled-together foster family from Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Posted Feb 10, 2023
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4/5
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Skinamarink
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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This is horror on hard mode.
Posted Feb 10, 2023
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2.5/5
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The Whale
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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An interesting film about pity, guilt and shame. But, given Darren Aronofsky's habit of making the extremes of human experience look and feel like a horror film, I'm not sure it ever quite gets to 'empathy'.
Posted Feb 03, 2023
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5/5
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Tár
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Brilliant mud-black comedy with a sinister nightmare logic, as Blanchett’s bloviating conductor rages against impending ego death in the shadow of public cancellation.
Posted Jan 24, 2023
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4.5/5
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Decision to Leave
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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The brilliantly fetishistic and formalistic Park Chan-wook dials the freakiness back (just a little) for this beguiling romance.
Posted Dec 16, 2022
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3/5
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Triangle of Sadness
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Not nearly as subversive as it could or should be, but there's little out there that can top the Centrepiece of Spew.
Posted Dec 16, 2022
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2.5/5
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The Lost King
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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A perfectly okay film to pass away the time.
Posted Dec 16, 2022
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3/5
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Fall
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Fall is ultimately 70 minutes of great fun. The problem unfortunately is that it goes for 100 minutes.
Posted Dec 09, 2022
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4/5
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Resurrection
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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An engrossing (and, by the climax, straight up gross) psychological horror film anchored by two fantastic lead performances. Rebecca Hall, in particular, has become our pre-eminent star of stomach-churning, dread-inducing dramas.
Posted Dec 02, 2022
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4.5/5
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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The pleasure of Glass Onion (besides the delicious cast) comes from discovering halfway through that you're watching an entirely different film than you originally thought, as it was with Knives Out as well.
Posted Nov 25, 2022
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3/5
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Confess, Fletch
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Jon Hamm proves a deft stand-in for Chevy Chase, and Confess, Fletch is a more than suitable distraction for viewers.
Posted Nov 24, 2022
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2.5/5
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Hellraiser
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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As a society we must stop kink-shaming the Hell Priest, Pinhead, but as a critic I have some complaints with their latest movie.
Posted Nov 24, 2022
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4/5
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The Night of the 12th
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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It maybe puts too fine (or blunt) a point on it, but this is a very moral and compelling procedural with something powerful to say.
Posted Oct 14, 2022
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5/5
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The Stranger
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Deft, delicate and empathetic, yet ultimately piercing and unforgiving. A phenomenal work.
Posted Oct 07, 2022
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2/5
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Blonde
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Hard to justify, harder to watch. A self-admitted exercise in artifice, so why is anyone surprised it's a surface-level provocation? Mostly, it's just exhausting.
Posted Sep 30, 2022
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2.5/5
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On the Count of Three
(2021)
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Simon Miraudo
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It treats the provocative subject matter with appropriate gravity, to its credit, but can't shake the too-cute studio comedy structure that ultimately makes this a bit of a feathered fish.
Posted Sep 30, 2022
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4/5
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Moonage Daydream
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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A kaleidoscopic, phantasmagoric David Bowie doco that challenges the typical, form-fitting arc of other music biopics and focuses instead on creative practice (and the pursuit of ch-ch-changes).
Posted Sep 16, 2022
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4/5
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The Quiet Girl
(2022)
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Simon Miraudo
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Compact and modest in its storytelling, aspect ratio and even its title, the film nonetheless builds to a high-stakes climax (relatively speaking) of incredible emotion.
Posted Sep 09, 2022
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