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★★★ 1/2 + : recommend
♥️ : loved
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Halloween Ends 2022
So utterly confounding that I couldn’t help but to be on board with it all. David Gordon Green, in all likelihood, just tripped over his own two feet and made a trashterpiece. Every angry fan, whose critiques are not unfair, even those claiming this to be the horror version of Rise of Skywalker, seem alienated by what this trilogy evidently needed. The relationship drama is so beguiling from the beginning, creating this weird angle that just seems to be serving…
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Aftersun 2022
A festival favorite of the year that swept me off my feet. A delicate approach from an already assured director, despite this being their first feature. The sound design and camera placements during the films lingering moments are exceptionally well crafted, which pave way to one of the most brilliantly edited and affecting final sequences I’ve seen in quite some time. A love letter to anyone navigating through a new stage of their life, who feel lost and misplaced along…
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Casablanca 1942
Always assumed it’s politics were necessary to understand before going in and that the presentation might be a bit too heady to get into, pulling back the central romance. Delighted that the plate presented was full and entirely digestible. The dialogue is snappy and quotable, it’s brilliantly paced, and the central conflict with a cynical man with a beating heart keeps you locked in for every single minute. Somehow more anti-romance than expected and much more of a love letter…
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Scream VI 2023
Oh, it’s a sequelboot, so no one is safe and anyone could be the killer and anyone could die? So how far are we from the original concept? It doesn’t have the audacity to go as far as it’s alluding to and all we have left is a pretty standard popcorn fare that’s trapped inside it’s own conventions. Also juggling past lore and trying to cement new characters is just not working here as much as it did in the…
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The Batman 2022
David Fincher’s The Batman, this is not. To wear the mark of that influence one would assume its share of good dialogue, tension, and shocks to the core as we unravel what’s burrowing deeper beneath the surface. Maybe the most interesting comparison was one to The Crow, which unfortunately doesn’t imbue the same sense of dread, weirdness, or of a multilayered revenge story, but I can see the sad boy tone and 90’s grunge soundtrack doing the heavy lifting there.…
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Possessor 2020
One would assume the son of David Cronenberg would be debuting painstakingly brutal and violent body horror that rivals even some of his aforementioned fathers masterworks. This assumption added with some shocking slasher razzle-dazzle would be correct. Rolling out today in drive-ins and theaters, Brandon Cronenberg bursts through seams with an entry that, whether people love or hate it, will be impossible to forget. Much less uses a concept that foreshadows to a frightening future but instead brings viewers into…
