Having read glowing reviews and taken Kermode's word for it that

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By which you mean 'He hates Michael Mann' :-)

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:-) Precisely, the knownothingcünt.

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I've got to the stage where I'm afraid I no longer trust Kermode. I've had too many bad steers from him. Shīte like 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and 'The Falling' that he's raved about have turned out to be the most appalling drivel.

I'm afraid I've also come to the conclusion that he and Mayo are too easily swayed by the really big genre releases like James Bond and Star Wars. Faced with such massive films, their critical faculties seem to shut down and these films seem to get huge plaudits virtually on the nod.

I'm also increasingly fed up with the way he allows his political bias to influence his reviews. He simply gushes at stuff like 'I Am Daniel Blake' and 'Pride' for no other reason than their political standpoint.

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And furthermore he has embraced te new prudery of the left with extraordinary gusto. In short, he hates the tÃ*tties.

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And furthermore he has embraced te new prudery of the left with extraordinary gusto. In short, he hates the tÃ*tties.

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He's always been a humourless prude, though. Your hardcore lefty often is. I got so sick of him (and to a lesser extent Mayo) that I must admit I haven't listened to it in three months or more. My phone has stopped even downloading the podcasts. :-(

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He's always been a humourless prude, though. Your hardcore lefty often is. I got so sick of him (and to a lesser extent Mayo) that I must admit I haven't listened to it in three months or more. My phone has stopped even downloading the podcasts. :-(

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Oh, I still enjoy the bantz. And Mayo does dig him out about his silly leftism.

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And furthermore he has embraced te new prudery of the left with extraordinary gusto. In short, he hates the tÃ*tties.

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Mind you, you're right. He does seem to want to complain about the 'appalling gender politics' of every other film now in order to head off criticism from femmos, lezzers and similar. Equally, the opinions of said femmos, lezzers, transers and other malcontent freaks are now given undue weight in the correspondence.

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Oh, I still enjoy the bantz. And Mayo does dig him out about his silly leftism.

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But Mayo's basically a communist as well, though. :-( Forever asking loaded questions whenever there's an interview with an American star about the "current political climate" so they'll slag off Trump or Harvey Weinstein or whatevs. No, I'm right off the pair of them, I'm afraid.