I’ll keep an eye open for the other two films in the trilogy and also keen to see Trier/Reinsve’s Sentimental Value from last year which gets rave reviews.
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I randomly selected that one afternoon over the christmas break. I loved it.
Will look out for the others too 
We always use the christmas period to check through the Guardian list for the films we’ve missed out on during the year. some really excellent stuff that we did miss including
Vermiglio which is a bit of a heartbreaker but the Italian mountain scenery looks amazing!
Santosh, that the Guardian described as a Northern Indian woman police procedural - which totally undersells an excellent thriller mixed up with issues of race, gender, class, and caste (I may not be selling it either)
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Watched it over the weekend. I really enjoyed it but its a bit of a marmite film, a mate hated it.
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I hated Uncut Gems and this looks like more of the same. I’m tired of seeing White men falling upwards in convoluted plots 
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Watched Baltimorons last night - what a lovely film that was. The improv scene nearly ruined it for me, but turns out, it didn’t.
My reviews are pish/10.
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Or trustworthy…
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Watched Hamnet last night.
I thought it was beautiful. Wife got a bit bored and hates Shakespeare anyway so didn’t love it as much.
A study of how we deal differently with grief and the indescribable pain of losing a child.
If Jesse Buckley doesn’t win an Oscar I’d be very surprised.
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We opted for Song Sung Blue after I found out that it wasn’t a Neil Diamond biopic.
Despite the f’ing youbickwity of Sweet Caroline in today’s broken world (will it really be the theme tune to the apocalypse?) it was very enjoyable. Great performances, touching (me & you) and very funny at times.
So good, so good, so good.
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Took my youngest to see the new Anaconda reboot today. It’s ridiculous, but we both enjoyed it.
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Still yet to see his latest one but watched Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and Licorice Pizza. Both good, both deal with memory and affection. The former very tense with Joaquin Pheonix acting his face off. Brilliant.
The latter however emerges on top between the two. Great performances from two inexperienced actors, all fun and light, but everything else around them is just brilliant. The music, styling, cinematography etc. adds up to a lovely take on a coming of age / love story told very well.
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I thought Joaquin’s performance in The Master was incredible. Oscar worthy, really.
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I got through about 15min of One Battle After Another. I’ve really enjoyed PTA in the past, but this one just missed me. I’ve never been sold on Leo (besides the departed where he was brillinat for me), so maybe that’s it? It seemed a bit crass and ludicrous - a bit like War Machine but not as funny.
Agree on Licorice Pizza, though my partner found it boring.
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Yeah I tapped out of Liquorice Pizza pretty early, just didn’t connect with it.
I get what you mean with One Battle, it’s pretty ludicrous overall.
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Rather than the yearly ritual of watching my team whimper out of the FA Cup (although I’d bought a ticket - but cup game tickets not transferable of course…) I had a lovely day out - art gallery, cinema, and Mowgli.
Hamnet was my partner’s choice and I hadn’t heard about it so had no preconceptions. Loved it. Superb acting throughout, and some really electric scenes. I definitely got caught up in the emotion of it on the big screen.
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I enjoyed One Battle in the cinema but it didn’t linger in the memory like the best movies should.
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Amazing film, although not a barrel of laughs. Incredible performances and loved the setting (didn’t feel like a period piece somehow). Took issue with some of the Hamnet / Hamlet transposition but there you go.
8.75/10
&
0/10 to the guy eating a multipack of Quavers across the aisle.
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Maybe this should go in the ‘what don’t you get thread’ but why is OBAA considered a ‘comedy’ at the Globes, there were certainly some funny bits, but the first time we watched it that was the last thing we were thinking, saw much more the second time and was less visceral, but still.
Edit: think they did it with The Bear last year
Also, Sean Penn was robbed imho.
Also also, wtf.
Literally had no idea who that was, no idea.
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It’s the pen. They’re all on it now.
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Crazy innit.