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Sick 2022

★★★½ Watched 21 Jan 2023

Pretty solid and nasty little slasher. Full of neat camerawork and gruesome kills. Builds tension well and employs some great social commentary. It’s interesting to see a horror movie use COVID as a plot device like this, and it’s handled well.
Aftersun 2022

★★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2023

Do we ever really know the ones we love?
Gorgeous meditation on the tangle of joy and despair. Mescal gives a fantastically low-key performance as a man grappling with the life he had, the life he has, and the life he never will. Wells’ approach to the narrative is really great, melding existential and familial drama masterfully. Beautiful and wonderfully melancholy. Really does get better the more you think about it.

Fear Street: 1666 2021

★★★½ Watched 14 Jul 2021 2

Bloody, campy, and a whole lot of fun! Tells its own story very well while serving as a fitting conclusion to the trilogy. Features a creepy colonial setting, nasty gore, and disturbing imagery. Essentially is two movies in one; this makes the pacing a little wonky, but it’s done with good reason and in a clever manner. Develops the trilogy’s overarching narrative in interesting and logical ways, especially in relation to Deena and Hannah’s relationship. Their bond provides a unique…
Fear Street: 1994 2021

★★★½ Watched 29 Jun 2021

A really fun and effective slasher that fits within the genre’s mold while also building out its own mythos. Has some really gnarly kills that get under your skin, but also a good deal of black comedy that lighten things up. References countless other horror flicks and employs theirs tropes in clever ways. Just when it’s beginning to feel a bit ridiculous and silly, it bounces back with a solid emotional core and some really nasty violence, reminding you that…