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  Man Bites Dog 1992

  ★★★★ Watched by Nicholas 27 May 2022

  The Criterion Challenge 2022 - Film #6
  1990s

  Been a long while since I've been as impressed with directing as I was with this. So much of the core material here feels so off the cuff, but never amateurishly improvisational. Nothing here feels written or blocked, it all feels so unbelievably natural. And holy shit, Benoît Poelvoorde's performance is genuinely one of the all time great comedic performances. He perfectly captures the tone that this film is going for without…

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  Scream 3 2000

  ★★★½ Watched by Nicholas 26 May 2022

  Part 37 of The Dumbest Horror Marathon Ever Conceived

  The reveal is deeply unsatisfying, mostly because it feels like they cheated a bit in order to land there. And also, still, a stunning lack of Sidney Prescott in the first half. But! I think this is a significant improvement on the second. Paced so much better, the studio film production setting adds a lot to the personality of the film, the performances are so fun, the Ghostface sequences are exciting. It's a really good movie. I liked it a lot. Fun fun fun!

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  El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie 2019

  ★★ Watched by Nicholas 11 Oct 2019 16

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  Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019

  ★½ Watched by Nicholas 25 Jul 2019 31

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

  There is some great filmmaking on display in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, and there are a few great scenes where Tarantino's trademark dialogue is at it's finest. That's it.

  Tarantino's engrossing character work is nowhere to be found here. Tarantino's often excellent storytelling is not in this film. Tarantino's sometimes excessive but usually fun flirtations with genre homages nosedive into painfully abundant and indulgent scenes that lend nothing to the bigger picture; a bigger picture that feels virtually…