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Conclave

Excellent telling of the choosing of a fictional pope, and the politics and conniving that takes place around it.

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Your Monster

Glad I gave this one a chance. A stage performer is dumped by her director boyfriend while she's receiving cancer treatment. And the monster from her childhood returns to her wardrobe. But, it's not that film, it's deeper, funnier and darker than that.

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Perfect Days

Follows the daily life of a toilet cleaner in Tokyo and the characters he bumps into. Really absorbing film.

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His Girl Friday (1939)

Amazing dialogue in this 1939 classic. Very funny, loved it.

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Blitz

Really well told tale of a you evacuee who jumps off the train and tries to return to his mother in 1940s London. Wonderful performances and gripping story, all told under the excellent direction of Steve McQueen.

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Anora

A sex worker believes she has landed on her feet when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. On a wild trip to Las Vegas they get married to allow him to stay in the country, but his parents have other ideas. Very funny, a wild ride of a film. Really enjoyed it.

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A Different Man

A highly disfigured man undergoes a radical procedure that renders him handsome. The film follows his obsession with his prior self.

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The Substance

Body horror turned up to eleven. Utterly mad tale of a TV star deciding to fight the ageing process. Final act is hilarious! I kinda loved it.

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The Outrun

Excellent portrayal of an alcoholic who escapes to Orkney to start her recovery.

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

A brilliant follow-up to the original, we meet an adult Lydia Deetz with her own teenage daughter and some more ghoulish goings-on. I laughed out-loud and absolutely loved it.

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Blink Twice

Two young women are invited to a billionaire's island for an isolated, hedonistic escape. Something isn't right though. Fantastic debut from director Zoë Kravitz.

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Kneecap

Excellent tale of an Irish-language hip-hop group in modern-day Belfast. Fast-paced, provocative and very funny, loved it.

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A Shrine

An Iranian man attempts to escape the restrictions of his job by setting up a shrine in the mobile home in which he lives. As he visits the pious around Montreal, he starts making a lot of money, but questions how he can live with this lie. Very low budget film, well-made and absorbing.

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Timestalker

Alice Lowe brings us the brilliant tale of a woman who discovers love, only to die soon after. She is then reincarnated in a later time, with the same characters around her and repeats the process. Great film.

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Sunlight

Great road trip film, involving a suicidal man and a woman who prefers to remain in a monkey suit. Loved it.

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3 Women (1977)

A timid woman starts working at a health spa for the elderly and becomes enamoured with her trainer, an talkative and shunned co-worker . The two women have very different personalities and become roommates. Glad I got to see this interesting film, that I had never heard of before.

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Kinds of Kindness

Three stories starring the same actors as different characters are linked by "RMF", a minor character. Very odd and quite indescribable, I absolutely loved it!