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Pet Sematary 1989
With the exception of Fred Gwynne, maybe the least charismatic cast of all time? And yet, strangely, it was serving CAMP.
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Saw X 2023
Simultaneously ascended fanfic and the best damn movie of the series—thirteen years after they fucked him with Final Chapter, Greutert decided to come back and prove himself once and for all. Shockingly structurally sound for a post–Saw II sequel, and yet it relishes in what feels like tying up the whole series with a blood-stained bow, in an out-and-out love letter to the people who've become our plucky hero John Kramer and his lovable gang. Genuinely touching in its clear…
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The Creator 2023
My dear friend Conrado described this as feeling like a two hour “previously on” segment and I think he hit the nail on the head. I don’t know if they had a much longer movie they aggressively cut down, or they just felt they’d never get a sequel made and wanted to put it all out there, but it feels like there’s five hours of movie here and time for none of it.
From the trailers, I expected an unoriginal…
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997
This movie is supremely silly and the set-up for it is utterly absurd, as is its brief third act -- but the second act remains just crackerjack blockbuster filmmaking, blowing almost everything made these days out of the water on the back of Spielberg's sheer filmmaking prowess and natural sense of tension, blocking, and excitement. Basically the entire stretch from the sabotage of the InGen camp to the rescue from the roof of the raptor-infested compound is just one breathless set-piece after another. It's all extremely silly, and ultimately kind of meaningless. But it's a load of fun. And Pete Postlethwaite is so awesome in this.
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Asteroid City 2023
Deeply sad??? Obviously hilarious too but jesus????? I'm in love with it all from the design choices, color palette, blocking which is basically unparalleled in western cinema. Did not expect the alien to be my new favorite guy. I understand watching the movie about a broadcast telecasting a play-within-a-play seems like a hat on a hat on top of another hat, but the essential moments where characters search for a sense of purpose are practically screaming in the face of…
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The Flash 2023
Let's talk about CW's The Flash.
Low budget for sure, corny to a fault, and in the later seasons got repetitive and unfocused.
But in its prime, it was peak superhero cinema. It had huge heart, creative stories, and put time into developing the characters, their relationships, and their powers.
And whenever you would get a classic DC cameo as a new character like John Wesley Shipp, Helen Slater, Brandon Routh, or Teri Hatcher, they were given an actual character…
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