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A franchise once revered for its craft, it’s startling director Michael Chaves of reasonable quality in 2019’s La Llorona offers no skill in this third main film devoid of scares in a badly developed plot with atrocious, generic dialogue in the most uninspiring entry in this once benchmark horror franchise.
Carried with career-defining performances by Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo; the story is as simple as it is universal: a man trying to find his place in the world when technology overtakes him.
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A long-gestating work from Griffin Dunne, his documentary on his aunt, celebrated writer Joan Didion, utilises various famous faces to paint the story of her career in an engaging piece.
Monika Mitchell’s’ film based on chintzy novelist Nora Roberts’ work is an absurdly dull tale that not even Alyssa Milano clad in leather can stir up any viewing satisfaction in this dreadfully boring procedural where Milano’s crime author works with police to find her sister’s webcam killer; the farfetched premise the only borderline interesting aspect in an otherwise poor film.
If Infinity War was the culmination of ten years’ hard work by Marvel Studios, Endgame is a celebration of Marvel itself; a chance to spend time with old friends in one last hurrah in a film that gives new meaning to the word “epic”. For that, it is a technical masterpiece, making every single frame count and edited to perfection as Feige, Markus, McFeely and the Russos’ vision is fully realised in this capping-off point to twenty-two films’ worth of story as the universe moves on to a bright and unknown future.
There are few instances nowadays where a film can be classed as an event, but Marvel’s Infinity War, even for its strange inclusion of 4 sub-villains with no previous introduction and the film’s importance likely being retconned within a year’s time, is an event; from the “10” in Marvel Studio’s logo, this has been the culmination of the studio’s hard work that pulls no punches with its heroes for the most noteworthy Marvel film in the studio’s short existence of producing their own films.
