Tag Archives: Couple

The Lovebirds (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): I’ve seen it before – but it’s okay anyway

Posted on May 25, 2020 by

“The Lovebirds” is so predictable and familiar to the bone that my mind kept experiencing moments of déjà vu when I watched it at last night. Right from the very beginning, I clearly discerned what I was going to get, … Continue reading →

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A Secret Love (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): A longtime couple who finally comes out

Posted on May 3, 2020 by

Netflix documentary film “A Secret Love”, which was released in last Wednesday, is an intimate portrayal of a longtime couple who endured and prevailed together for many years as deeply loving each other in secret. While their long story of … Continue reading →

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Villains (2019) ☆☆☆(3/4): They enter a wrong house…

Posted on January 11, 2020 by

“Villains” is a little morbid comedy film about a young criminal couple who happens to come across another criminal couple who turns out to be a lot worse than them. Once it establishes the setting for its main characters, the … Continue reading →

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The Unicorn (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): Searching for their threesome partner

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

“The Unicorn” is a little amusing sex comedy willing to go along with its two main characters who are eager to have more fun and excitement for their long relationship. As these two characters respectively try to figure about what … Continue reading →

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What Keeps You Alive (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): At their retreat

Posted on December 17, 2018 by

“What Keeps You Alive” tries to bring some fresh air to its genre conventions, and it mostly succeeds on the whole. Although it is apparent from the very first shot that something bad is going to happen, the movie gradually … Continue reading →

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What Maisie Knew (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : What she saw and heard

Posted on March 29, 2014 by

 Maisie is quite a little girl, considering that many children at her age cannot deal well with such a tough situation like hers. She probably does not entirely understand how her life is changing, but she remains rather calm and … Continue reading →

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Before Midnight (2013) ☆☆☆1/2(3/5/4) : It’s still wonderful to meet them again

Posted on May 25, 2013 by

After long years, they live together as a couple. They are no longer two young students who accidentally met each other for the first time in “Before Sunrise”(1995), and they are more jaded than when they came across the possibility … Continue reading →

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Blue Valentine (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : It was love, but…

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

Was really it love? The couple in “Blue Valentine” probably asks that question many times to themselves while struggling to deal with the problem between them. Yes, it was love indeed, but the reality requires a lot more than love … Continue reading →

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The Future (2011) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Their whimsy and uncertain future

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

“The Future” will definitely be one of the quirkiest movies I saw in this year, and, though it is only April, it will stay on or near the top of the list assigned to such films at the end of … Continue reading →

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Another Year (2010) ☆☆☆1/2 : A year of a happy middle-aged couple

Posted on March 12, 2011 by

 They are an ordinary middle-aged couple living in the comfort from each other’s love. They do not need to tell that to each other. You can see that right from when they are together in their house. You know that … Continue reading →

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