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Kneecap

Kneecap

★★★★½

Banger.

Robot Dreams

Robot Dreams

★★★★

The bittersweet romance of waiting. The aching reality of big city solitude. The damn good jams of Earth Wind & Fire.

They should call this movie Kenji because it is very much the Japanese remake of Shane Jacobsen’s Kenny

Very warm. There’s so much satisfaction built by repetition. I just love Wenders.

You could hear a pin drop in a packed house. As soon as it was over, I sat in quiet, absolutely distraught. It made me feel genuinely sick. Nothing could have prepared me for this. We begin in darkness and end in total emotional torment. In a decade full with important films, I believe this is one of the most significant, if not the most. The reluctance to follow a conventional story is admirable; each sequence develops and builds until…

I thought the husband was a DJ cooking up a banger upstairs

Well I just saw the greatest acting performance of my life and it was not by Sandra Hüller or a child actor with the cuntiest bangs I’ve ever seen — it was by a dog so—

A completely engrossing courtroom drama. 

There are these moments where the camera feels diegetic without feeling like the style is shifting into verite. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like that before. A marvelous trick.

In show business it is best not to work with kids or animals… because they’ll steal the whole show!

Really good movie - I liked not having all the information. French court is so free form it feels like jazz. Also, I think I’d be a fantastic juror