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List of films reviewed:
| No. | Date meeting | Title | */10 | Comment | Chooser | Link | ||
| 34 | July | Top Gun: Maverick |
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| 33 | May | Operation Mincemeat | group | |||||
| 32 | Mar22 | The Duke | group | |||||
| 31 | Oct21 | No Time to die! |
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| 30 | 19Aug21 | The Courier | Richard & Penny | |||||
| 29 | 23July21 | Cruella | 9 | Well liked, well acted, fun, great escapism. | Bill | |||
| 28 | 23July21 | The Father | 8 | Well acted, effectively portrayed confusion of dementia sufferer, but some felt not an enjoyable watch due to subject matter | Bill | |||
| 27 | 4June21 | Nomadland | 8 | Well liked, moving, thought provoking, good acting, interesting scenery, maybe a little slow. | Lindsay | |||
| 26 | 20May21 | Manhunter | 6.5 | Mixed views, a film of its time (the 80's), with a certain style, main character "wooden", his wife too accommodating, not always easy to follow plot (but several people watched while tired as it was on latish) | Brenda | |||
| 25 | 20May21 | The Adventures of Tintin | 9 | Generally well liked, good "Boys own" fun,. Well made animation. | Brenda | |||
| 24 | 30Apr21 | The Martian | 8 | Mixed views - some loved it, others hated the music or thought it lacked realism, particularly the final space scenes | Richard | |||
| 23 | 9Apr21 | In the Loop | ? | Tim | ||||
| 22 | 9Apr21 | Blackkklansman | ? | Tim | ||||
| 21 | 19Mar21 | The Kingsman | 6 | Liked by some as stylish, tongue-in-cheek entertainment with a few good set pieces. Was too much fantasy and violence for others. | Ann C | |||
| 20 | 19Mar21 | Shutter Island | 5 | A more thoughtful film but unbelievable, too long and too much in same vein as one of our previous films, Unsane, Difficult to understand how much was real & how much imagination of main character | Ann C | |||
| 19 | 05Mar21 | Stan and Ollie/Unsane | ? | Lindsay | ||||
| 18 | 18Feb21 | The Conversation (2015) | 6 | It was thought-provoking, clever and artfully made, although quite slow. Its portrayal of a surveillance worker growing increasingly anxious and paranoid as he saw the dangerous repercussions of his work was slightly disturbing. | Bill | |||
| 17 | 23Jan21 | A Walk in the Woods (2015) | 7 | The general consensus was an easy to watch and enjoyable film but it would have been nice to see more of the spectacular scenery and that the story line followed the book, apart from Bill and Katz being much younger in the original prose. | Brenda | |||
| 16 | 29Dec20 | Phantom Thread | 7 | Disturbing study of controlling relationship. Good soundtrack. | Richard & Penny | |||
| 15 | 3Dec20 | Loving | Ann C | |||||
| 14 | Our Little Sister | Lindsay | ||||||
| 13 | Tenet [at Shaw Ridge Cineworld!] | Lindsay | ||||||
| 12 | Zodiac | R & P | ||||||
| 11 | Everest | Katie | ||||||
| 10 | The Danish Girl | Brenda | ||||||
| 9 | The History Boys | Barbara K | ||||||
| 8 | The Day of the Jackal | Bill | ||||||
| 7 | Selma | Ann C | ||||||
| 6 | Spotlight | Jonathan | ||||||
| 5 | The Program | Lindsay | ||||||
| 4 | Hidden Figures | Jane H | ||||||
| 3 | The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society | Penny & Richard | link to review | |||||
| 2 | The Sense of an ending | Brenda | link to review | |||||
| 1 | Apr20 | Victoria & Abdul | Anna R | link to review |