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Men 2022

★★½ Watched 23 Aug 2023

The controversy over this film is extremely understandable after viewing this. While strong cinematography and performances come to the rescue, it is ultimately the symbolism and surrealism that divides audiences.

I can’t lie, I only finished the film with a very bare-bones understanding of what it was all supposed to mean. But, I knew from the very start when the apple was taken from the tree that pretty much all of it was symbolic. When I read a breakdown of…
Oppenheimer 2023

★★★½ Watched 09 Aug 2023

Oppenheimer was a fascinating investigation of many political and historical themes, impressing me visually, and perhaps more so aurally. But as much as I appreciated the grandiosity of it all, especially having watched this at the cinema, a few things didn’t quite click for me which is a shame for a film with so much potential.
Oppenheimer attempts a fast, dialogue-driven pace, almost like that of Social Network, and simultaneously a deep introspection on an epic scale, ultimately achieving neither…

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Black Swan 2010

★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2020

Black Swan (2010) - A
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan marks one of Natalie Portman’s strongest performances and another exquisite entry to Aronofsky’s powerful lineup.
Black Swan surrounds 28-year-old Nina Seyers, a passionate ballet dancer with unhealthy perfectionism who is selected for the starring role in the next play ‘Swan Lake’. She is perfectly apt for the character of the delicate, White Swan, but her challenge is to unlock the darker, sensual side of herself to play the Black Swan. In…
The Witch 2015

★★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2020

The Witch (2015) - A*
An exquisitely crafted nightmare that is a phenomenal debut from Robert Eggers, The Witch is a deeply unsettling exercise in unrelenting terror whose horrifying finale made my blood run cold.
After being banished from a Puritan Plymouth Colony over a religious dispute, a family reside on a farm beside an impassable wilderness where they make a sustainable life for themselves. But when their newborn baby mysteriously disappears and their crops fail, the family turn on…

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