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Recent reviews

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  A Bay of Blood 1971

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2023

  31 Films Of Halloween: 2023 Edition #4

  Pretty bad but also kind of great?

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  The Wicker Man 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Sep 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  31 Films Of Halloween: 2023 Edition #3

  I think there's enough singing and dancing to actually qualify this as a musical.

  I found myself slightly torn during this movie, the people of Summersisle are clearly meant to be portrayed as the antagonists, religious zealots willing to murder people, even young girls, to appease their gods and grow crops. And yet the lead detective we follow is appalled not simply at their antiquated and violent beliefs, but because they don't belive…

Popular reviews

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  Cherry 2021

  ★ Watched 13 Feb 2021

  The Russo brothers saw Trainspotting once

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  Knock at the Cabin 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2023

  I was absolutely shaken by this.

  In many ways this feels like the movie that Shyamalan has been building to for his entire career. The parental love of The Sixth Sense, the struggling faith of Signs, the apocalyptic dread of The Happening, all rolled into one of the most viscerally upsetting films I've seen in a while. The 3rd news story in particular put such a knot in my stomach.
  The film manages to put you in the shoes of…