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2024

★★★½ Watched 24 May 2025

Some wild, wild swings… and all the better for it.

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched 23 May 2025

A proper, epic telling of one of the greatest of tales.

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1995

★★★★★ Liked 2

Inspired by the Toronto International Film Festival’s Stay-at-home-Cinema series, a reason – as if one were every needed – to watch a movie which will always remain one of the most special pieces of filmmaking in my life.

On the celebration of its 25th anniversary, Before Sunrise remains as magical as ever for, among so many things…

• When, 11 minutes in, Jesse tells Celine about seeing his grandmother after her ing, and you can tell she’s already falling in…

2017

★★★★★ Liked 2

Completing my Christopher Nolan Filmspotting ouevre-view…

… with what I’ve decided is Nolan’s career high-point. While my heart loves Interstellar the most, and I hugely ire Inception and The Dark Knight for what they meant to action cinema and superhero movies respectively, Dunkirk is his masterpiece (gauntlet laid down for you, Tenet).

I just don’t know how anyone could argue that the legend of Dunkirk could be told any better. The set-up in the first eight minutes alone, from the…

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