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Rag'n'Bone Man

7.0 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Rory Charles Graham (born 29 January 1985), better known as Rag'n'Bone Man, is a British...

Maori

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Tabletop Game

The players explore the islands of Polynesia. The winner is the player who scores the most points...

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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles (Y: The Last Man, #2)

Brian K. Vaughan

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WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS As Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, begins to make his way across...

Guildhall

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Tabletop Game

Progress! That's what these Dark Ages need, someone with a little get-up-and-go. You've been a serf...

The Little Mermaid ~ 3D Interactive Pop-up Book

Book and Games

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Swim through the depths of the ocean with the Little Mermaid as she embarks on a wonderful adventure...

A Pocket of Wind Resistance by Karine Polwart

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The first studio album from the acclaimed Karine Polwart in over 5 years. A Pocket Of Wind...

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar– First Words

Games and Education

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar™ & Friends First Words is an adorable preschool learning app for...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Roma (2018) in Movies

Feb 23, 2019 (Updated Feb 23, 2019)

Roma (2018)

2018 | Drama

7.4

(10 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Good looking but slightly soulless arthouse drama courtesy of the good people at Netflix, who have obviously decided they need some awards credibility what with Disney Plus being on the horizon and all. The travails of a maid in Mexico City circa 1970; her employers divorce, she gets impregnated by her boyfriend who promptly absconds, swimming trip nearly ends badly, and so on.

Not very much happens, but does so extremely beautifully - beautiful cinematography is coupled with some formal, rather alienating camerawork. You almost never forget you're watching a movie, except perhaps during one gruelling sequence near the end. It's very difficult to shake the sense that this film was made solely to win awards - it has the right kind of mixture of technical proficiency and socially-engaged storytelling. I couldn't really engage with it except on a superficial level, but it is very pretty.