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Biopic with jumbled timeline about poet Emily Dickenson...some good knockabout comedy lesbian and straight sex scenes (no actual sex, just a...

Somewhat shapeless and occasionally boring film about Korean immigrants trying to make a life as farmers (and chicken sexers) in rural Arkan...

Everyone is reviewing this and taking positions on it - does it help the climate change movement or not? Well, it's clever and funny, th...

Much more fun that I was expecting! Some of the reviews complain that the film tries to cross too many genres...spy movie, thriller, romcom,...

Rogers and Hammerstein's second musical together, and I don't remember any of the songs from this, except 'June is Bustin Out Al...

Really good emotional film about children separated from their birth sibling by adoption, and coming out of prison, and also being working c...

The 1980s film where Rosanna Arquette plays a bored suburban housewife (yes, that's what she calls herself, and how the blurb describes ...

Creepy and quite violent thriller, but well plotted and filmed - well, Danny Boyle, it's going to be good, isn't it? Hypnosis, false...

I set out to watch this mainly because it's the source of 'Manha Da Carnival', which I sometimes play on the trumpet. The song b...

Some of Wes Anderson's films are great, and some aren't. This is one of the latter. It's beautiful, and that makes its failure a...

Well, I liked this almost as much as Danubia , but not quite. It's beautifully written, and good on some parts of the history, but as it...

On the surface a much more conventional crime/mystery/thriller movie, but actually really interesting and multi-layered. I can't stop th...

Really powerful, beautiful film - nice to know that there are still some really good ones being made. Atmospheric, menacing without any actu...

Quite good Canadian film about...well, it's not that easy to summarize. Successful divorced children's book author discovers that he...

Superficially enjoyable, with nods in the direction of liberal sensibilities, but actually a more or less fascist film. Nerdy comic book fan...

There's a lot that's annoying about the film...the sound quality is poor, so that I kept turning the volume up but there's music...

I so loved this book, which felt like it had been written just for me. Lots of stuff about architecture, and music, and even regions and nat...

A mainly trivial but quite enjoyable (and for once actually quirky) romcom about internet dating and catfishing ...which in this film turns ...

Another one of those films you think you've seen, but you haven't.  And really good...about Hollywood, and faded fame and glamour, a...

  Can't believe that I've never seen this, but I haven't. It was more fun than I was expecting...the main joke is that the two m...