Free Solo: my review of an Oscar-nominated climbing movie

I don’t often go to the movies, and last time I did the film started with a crazy man standing alone on a ledge up a sheer cliff face.

There was a feeling of déjà vu when I went to a local cinema for the first time in over a year a couple of weekends ago. Different film, similar opening as the camera panned in on the same crazy man climbing alone on a different sheer cliff face.

Free Solo: a film about a crazy man shinning up a cliff face. The phrase ‘In theatres this fall’ is unfortunate.

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