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1995

★★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2025

Some A-grade gum acting from Pacino here

2025

★★★★ 3

I was really expecting an awful first half based off what everyone’s been saying but idk, the entire movie really worked for me.
The build-up to the set-pieces of the second half really paid off and the claustrophobia of Ethan’s predicaments (both literal and psychological) was a brilliant angle.
Both Tom Cruise and Ethan Hunt are the last of their kind and you feel this isolation from beginning to end of the film. 
Unfathomable stunts, like truly batshit acrobatics from…

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2024

½ 9

Genuinely maddening.

• Every song beginning as a cracked whisper, with each performer struggling harder to find the note each time.
• The songs themselves being devoid of decent melodies and overstuffed with terrible lyrics.
• The trivialisation of the trans experience is what really sent me over the edge. Absolute dogshit writing (implying some people transition in order to deceive, like we’re watching fucking Mrs. Doubtfire)
• Some of the worst cinematography, lighting, and editing I’ve ever seen. A…

2024

★★★★½ 5

Look, no one’s more surprised than me for how highly I’ve rated this film.
But as someone who’s spent a lot of time analysing music biopics, Better Man offers up the most refreshingly creative interpretation of what has become an extremely tired formula.
Sure, the beats and tropes are still there but it’s like this film took the best parts of recent musicals/biopics; Elvis’s chaotic energy, Rocketman’s theatrical approach, and yes, even West Side Story’s dance-focused cinematography, and combined them into…

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