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Old enough to be a classic now, well cast, well paced, feel good. Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo work well together. 8.5/10.0

A fine remake of the Mel Gibson / Helen Hunt vehicle. Not great cinema, but I enjoyed it. 7.0/10.0

What a lovely film, bittersweet and funny, I enjoyed it a lot. Well cast, well written, perfectly paced in a slow, meandering but fulfilling way. I can’t think of a mis-step, it took me on an emotional journey and I loved it. 9.0/10.0

A slushy, lightweight romance movie of the Hallmark genre. The acting is not great, the writing predictable. This is not great cinema. Don’t judge me, I enjoyed it. 7.0/10.0

Another older movie. Nick Cage, impossibly cast as Jessica Biel’s love interest while looking more like her weird uncle, sees glimpses of the future and helps avoid disaster. A fun film, but the weird uncle thing taints the pacing. 7.0/10.0

Excellent performances from Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, this is an excellent movie, well paced, beautifully shot, and I loved the note at the end. Bravo Basil. 8.5/10.0

Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin (who will forever be Inara Serra in my mind) turn in good performances in this action-romp. It’s a fairly linear telling of a story, unlike the better 2012, but I enjoyed it. They did kind of rip-off the last scene from 2012 though, or maybe it’s an hommage. 7.5/10.0

Another old movie, and one looking its age. However, it’s doing so in the look-at-that-old-car and wow-what-a-funny-mobile-phone way, rather than the cringing racism and casual misogyny of films like Animal House and the like. This is a feel-good romance in the classic sense, that works as well through the lens of 2021 as it did in 2002. Hugh Grant and...

I had high hopes for this given the great cast, but what a disappointment. There are spoilers coming, so beware. Firstly the positives: great special effects, great casting, interesting premise. The bad: what starts off as an unsettling view of war-at-a-distance by showing us a candy-eating drone pilot making casual life-or-death decisions, has a crisis of confidence, muddling its message...

When I first saw this listed on Netflix I thought it was a new film, but alas no. Turns out I’d seen it before, back in 2010. Still, great performances, good casting and writing, a few laughs. Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt, what’s not to like? Overall, not bad at all. 7.0/10.0