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A film adaptation of a book I loved that’s actually good. Huh!

Ryan Gosling does great in what is often a solo act. Early on I thought the film was trying a bit too hard to be funny, but at some point it started working and I enjoyed it.

There are lots of parallels to The Martian, Arrival, and so on, but it’s a sufficiently different mash-up of the concepts that it’s not a problem.

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Films released in 2026 that I watched in 2026.

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Watched films ranked

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Every film I’ve watched since I started logging, ranked.

Obviously super subjective, and subject to change often and arbitrarily.

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Watched in the cinema

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Films I’ve seen on the big screen, not my little-er screen.

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