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Been in covid iso for a few days and I've watched a couple movies to pass the time. Thought I'd share some opinions. Se7en: Somehow I went almost 30 years without seeing this. Morgan Freeman puts in an incredible performance in his Shawshank-esque 90s style. Brad Pitt was ok but I feel he was overacting in many of his scenes, which is kind of the opposite of what the movie needed to keep its mood and tension in tact. Gwenyth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey were both dull in their roles. And bonus Dr Cox! I was surprised by how straight this movie played everything to do with the murder mystery aspect. I was expecting a big twist at about the 2/3rd mark which never materialised. It was really just a detective drama a-la Law and Order with some gross-out murder investigation scenes. The ending worked ok as a tension ratchet I suppose, but the film had done little to get me to care about the characters before that. I found the conclusion drove directly at the most straightforward answer to the problem presented and then faded to black before asking the audience anything about the morality that it had played with until that point. That being said, the movie was well directed, some well put together scenes, and apart from some slightly jarring bits the bleak tone manages to stick. I'm left wondering why this movie carried such high praise, apart from the fact that Morgan Freeman absolutely kills it in every scene. 5/10 Chaos Walking: I watched this one expecting a complete train wreck, but I loved the premise so why not. Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley both have more than enough talent to carry a movie (even a crappy Amazon original). And bonus Mads Mikkelsen! The first 45 minutes or so of this movie was an absolute blast. The film plays with the ideas and premise very well, revealing small, bite sized pieces - enough to keep me involved. They set up more interesting facets of the premise and let you wonder how they'll play down the track. They set up the beginning of a great epic adventure. Holland, Ridley and Mikkelsen shine in their roles. The Priest (David Oyelowo) is downright scary for a YA villain. Then, basically as soon as Holland and Ridley enter Farbranch the entire plot decides to simultaneously go absolutely nowhere and turns to complete poo poo. The great epic adventure they set up takes place in what seems like 4 adjacent fields anywhere in Europe or the northeast US. Everything from this point to do with the plot, if not outright terrible, could have been played a million times better with a little bit of script doctoring or just some general thought. I haven't read any of the source material but I am tempted to do so now because I think this movie was a victim of needing to adapt 1/3rd of a trilogy into a standalone film (which, lets be honest, was almost certainly never getting a sequel even if audiences loved it). This means they got 45 minutes of good setup and then needed to wrap everything beyond that into a serviceable ending which didn't exist in the source material. This resulted in 45 minutes of cool plot buildup and around 45 minutes of absolutely blowing anything good they'd developed to that point out of the water. Oh, and the climax scene with Holland and Mikkelsen was one of the stupidest loving things I have ever seen. Just absolute loving garbage. I wish I could give this a better score. Somewhere in it's first 45 minutes it almost captured and exceeded the mode of what better films in this genre (I'm thinking Hunger Games here) set out to achieve. Then it completely ruined it. 2.5/10 Shadow in the Cloud: Another one I came into expecting a train wreck - but I sort of knew what I was getting into and set my expectations accordingly. Many reviews complained that this movie has no idea what the laws of physics are, which seemed kickin' rad. This movie has a pretty well done Tarantino-esque scene at the start which is just dialogue and ratcheting tension for about 30 minutes with only CGM on screen. I thought it was quite well done. The monster was pretty cool but I literally couldn't stop thinking about the gremlin on the side of the bus scene from the Simpsons the whole time. It was played too straight for a movie that's kinda schlocky at it's core. I liked CGM being a cool badass hero and didn't give one single gently caress that the movie didn't understand the laws of physics. Basically this movie is 45 minutes of dialogue setup which is pretty well done for the kind of movie it is and then 45 minutes of balls-to-the-wall aeroplane insanity, with just about zero actual plot tying anything together. It was excellent fun, just don't think too much about it. 6.5/10
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The Automat A short (79 mintues) documentary about the Horn & Hardart Automats that operated in New York City and Philadelphia for much of the twentieth century. The film features interviews with people who were involved with the operation of the restaurants (and in some cases, their children) as well as several notable customers such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Colin Powell, and most notable Mel Brooks. It's something of a hagiography, with almost nothing critical to say. A light documentary a little piece of US social history.
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Dr. Strange Really liked it as a Raimi movie. loving hated it as an MCU story. I think they've gotten a lot better at making fun wacky movies but at the same time they've completely lost the thread of where to take the MCU post-Thanos. they really ruined the Wanda/SW character and clearly never knew what to do with her .
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Just binge-watched The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. God I loving love these three films, I can't give a rating that isn't obviously biased in ridiculous favour of them. As an aside, I used to have this Evil Dead 2 VHS:  See all those stills on the back? They're all from Army of Darkness, and due to such a printing gently caress-up this was only available in limited numbers, and (along with the corrected version) the last time Evil Dead 2 was released on VHS in the UK; it's probably worth an absolute fortune to some nerd who doesn't care about the actual movie and just wants to collect extremely rare objects and place them on a shelf of items he'll never use, so of course I managed to lose it (and a bunch of other poo poo, including what turned out to be a final-run VHS of The Evil Dead) when moving house years ago.
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Men - 2/5 - really enjoyed this until the climax and then it kinda threw itself off a cliff. Going from tense atmospheric horror to body horror to the point that even the main character stops caring about whats happening sure is a choice . Some of the imagery and metaphors were sloppily thrown in without much reason or development too. Great acting (Jessie Buckley is great as always) and directing otherwise. Bob's Burgers 4/5 - Unlike a lot of animated shows going big screen, this stayed true to the show and felt like a normal episode just bigger. The only problem is that it was really just a repeat of a previous episode in many ways, but it still had a lot of the charm and heart that makes the show great. The musical numbers were fully developed here too, unlike in the show where they are mostly throwaways, and instead of being too much they were some of the best scenes of the movie. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 00:11 on May 30, 2022 |
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I loved the ending of Men more than just about anything in the last 30 months. I respect the guts. My kind of film.
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Prisoners 4.5/5. Great film, that ending almost put it down to a 4 for me. But I still enjoyed it a lot. Nightcrawler 4/5. omg he is literally me (and by he, I mean the guy who just sucks up to his 'boss') Turning Red 1.5/5. I really really did not like this. I am a bad person clearly. The Fallout 2.5/5. Eh it was alright Uncut Gems 3.5/5. Worse than good time for sure. But still fairly good, and very pretty. You wont be alone 4/5. Surprisingly cool take on a classic witch story. I've seen a lot of people say it's like if the witch was directed by Terrence Mallick, and that kind of checks out. Winter Light 3/5. Not my favourite Bergman film, but fairly good. Loved First Reformed which clearly took a lot of inspiration from this.
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Bob's Burgers Movie 4/5 The first thing I'd say about the rating is that, and I don't mean this disparagingly, this isn't an ambitious movie. The rating is because the movie is so effective at being what it should be; a an episode of the show that uses a long run time and high budget to explore a narrative that fits perfectly with the show. Highlights include the dancing and choreography, whoever animates the show loves dancing, it shows in every episode outro and they exploit the film's budget and length here for a few musical numbers. It's no Encanto but it's endearing. I do wish it had found more time for exploring the "normal" conflicts and dynamics present in the regular show, once I realized we were in the climax I'd realized some of the b plots were under developed. If you like the show, the movie is that; it doesn't lose any sense of itself in this format. It's comfortable, comforting, and sweet.
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Watched Red Rocket over the weekend and left at about a 3.5 kind of mood, but I thought about it a lot during the night and went back to bump it to 4. Still been thinking about it since then and I feel like a 4.5 is coming. For such a simple movie there’s some pretty clever stuff in there.
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In a feat of astonishingly bad timing, I watched "if...." for the first time ever last week. The satire isn't lost on me, I get the message, and I liked it just fine up until the last twenty minutes or so; it's just very much of its time and place and hard to appreciate at this particular time. I'd still like to see "O Lucky Man!" but it isn't readily available for me to watch at the moment. I'll still give it 3.5/5 for the sizable portion of the movie that's not, shall we say, completely alienating.
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JAWS OF SATAN (1982) A drunk viewing but good GOD this was utter poo poo. Just complete and utter poo poo. Fritz Weaver takes a few minutes out from his break between filming scenes for Creepshow to show up in this garbage, where after some 80 or so minutes of everyone faffing around getting bumped off by snakes, he just waffles on at a snake which is supposed to be Satan or something for a few sentences, promptly causing it to burst into flames. Roll credits! Nothing else of note happens. It's like a really poo poo copy of Jaws, but with snakes instead of a shark. 1/5
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Elvis - In typical Baz fashion it’s be twice the movie at half the length. For its run time, the whole thing feels like a synopsis montage of his life and the movie just kinda happens around him, with a lot of time and narrative dedicated to the manager character which was incredibly misplaced. Lead actor was impressive though. 3/5 Jurassic World 3 - joyless garbage. Dumbest film since the first Suicide Squad. Just terrible craft on display all around. 1/5 Kings Man - Tonally all over the place with none of it landing. 2/5 The Nightingale - Glad I watched this on Hulu and I could skip forward in a few scenes. Just way too brutal and drawn out for me. I get that it’s the point but ugh. Great movie otherwise, just not one j could stomach fully the first time much less ever rewatch. 4/5
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apropos of nothing, can confirm the theatrical cut of Miami Vice (unavailable as a standalone blu in the states) is in fact the version featured on the double pack blu with The Kingdom also https://twitter.com/filmdaze/status/1466554128717520904?lang=en
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The Simpsons Movie (2007): B. While the movie has some modern Simpsons lameness (e.g: the random appearance of Green Day for no apparent story reason), and relitigating the "Homer and Marge break up" plotline for the thousandth time, there were some glimmers of Golden Era greatness in this movie. Overall I really enjoyed the movie but I still insist that The Simpsons ended in 1997 at the end of season 8.
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Not Another Teen Movie 4/5 I love love love this movie. So under appreciated especially considering how god awful all the other “_______ movie” that followed. quote:It was raining that night. The roads were slippery…” Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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Bullet Train Absolutely over the top, with some really wild cameos, good humor and insane action scenes. By the end of the movie my brain was just absolutely overloaded and had to stop processing for a few minutes. Also the soundtrack is completely killer B+
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NOPE - 90 MEN - 91 Memoria - 85 Fire of Love - 86 Crimes of the Future - 87 Vortex - 88 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives - 80 Aguirre, The Wrath of God - 90 The Northman - 74 Everything Everywhere All At Once - 89 Pleasure - 80 Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr - 79 Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai - 88 Throw Down - 70 The Gray Man - 71 Top Gun: Maverick - 78 Robocop - 93 Hellraiser - 88 Waterworld (Ulysses cut) - 82 Hard Boiled - 92 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn - 85 Benedetta - 55 The Matrix: Resurrection - 78 Licorice Pizza - 89 Black Christmas - 91 The Tragedy of Macbeth - 85 The Souvenir part II - 83 Ghostdog: Way of the Samurai - 87 The End of the Tour - 79 The Garden of Words - 77 Your Name. - 84 Weathering With You - 84 Belle - 70
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Someone else who watched Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn! Any thoughts on it? I thought it was maybe a bit too long and tonally it slipped in a few places but overall it I liked it and the end was fun.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Someone else who watched Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn! Any thoughts on it? I thought it was maybe a bit too long and tonally it slipped in a few places but overall it I liked it and the end was fun. I loved it, just really hit a lot of bases for me even if the final chapter kinda went off the rails. One of the few films out there that had the balls to acknowledge the existence of the pandemic, capitalist absurdity and online monoculture, and this sort of historical tug of war through architecture, etc
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The Video Dead (1987) This seemed like it might have been an ideal way to waste the end of a Saturday night, but it ended up just being so insufferably loving dull. 3/10.
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Prey - 7 Some people speak French in the movie and it’s terrible.
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eravulgaris posted:Prey - 7 That's just Quebecois.
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Kind of wish I hadn't seen any reviews prior to watching Prey. Think it would have been fun to have been caught off guard with how good this turned out....having lower expectations. Really solid movie. As far as action/sci-fi goes....it's one of the better movies in recent history. 7.5/10
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Kind of wish I hadn't seen any reviews prior to watching Prey. Think it would have been fun to have been caught off guard with how good this turned out....having lower expectations. Decided to rewatch 'The Predator' because I didn't remember almost any of it. Good reason why. What an absolute mess of a movie. I really have no idea what they were going for here....but it's got to be considered with AvP2 as the worst of the bunch. 4/10....only because it was marginally entertaining....and maybe one out of every five jokes warranted consideration as actual humor.
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Prey is really excellent until it gets a little on-rails toward the end. I’d call it the best Predator movie but the first one finishes so strong it leaves a better taste. I’d love to see Trachtenberg try something more character-driven without needing the big sci-fi set pieces but that’s obviously what gets made these days
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The Martian (2015) - A+. One of the best movies I've seen in recent memory. Great performances all around, and the movie avoids the typical cliches of this sort of rescue movie. A bit off topic for CD, but this film shows exactly why Elon Musk is full of poo poo if he thinks we're getting to Mars or inhabiting it anytime soon. My only (very minor) criticism: Disco rocks! I don't get why people are still harping about how much disco "sucks" in the 2010s and 20s. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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Lizzo bringing the disco beats back to new generation a bit. So may get many to agree with you now
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 6/10 Great concept, the settings and cast. But by the third act it just gets to be too much, I'm sure it's intentional but it didn't work for me and I wanted it to be over. Prey 7/10 It's good. The first Predator movie is still leagues ahead but this was fun and it mostly succeeds at what it tries to do. The trapper fight and ending fight also feel a bit too much but I wouldn't mind watching it again, unlike the above movie. Carillon posted:That's just Quebecois.
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Continuing with my 'recent movies I should have already seen' series, (2017): A+. Not at all what I expected going into the movie. I thought it was going to be about clueless wealthy white liberals condescendingly trying to relate to Black folks. I was wrong......Kinda. Although it's not as "fun" to watch as The Martian, Get Out is a layered allegorical film that I really enjoyed. Peele did an excellent job writing the script because the film gets its points across loud and clear without hitting you over the head a la Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, and unlike that episode, the themes are from the Black perspective. I can't say enough good stuff about Get Out, honestly. Also, think what you will about Brian Williams, but his daughter is a smoke show. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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Lightyear - C- Finally got around to seeing this the other day. I don’t know how much I was expecting out of it. Toy Story has always been one of my favorites, but I thought the concept of this was more, “oh cool,” rather than, “finally, the origin story we’ve always needed!” The weird part is, I thought it was pretty ok up until the third act, at which point it just started falling apart for me. It threw me into absolute nitpick mode, which I haven’t done with a movie in a while. The fact that they revealed Zurg to be an older version of Buzz feels completely asinine. I get that they’re trying to just do their own story, and the Disney show from 2001 is so obscure it might as well not even exist from Disney’s pov, but they make a special point of saying that this is the movie Andy would’ve seen when Buzz Lightyear came out. If that’s the case, why does Buzz look not even remotely similar to how he does in the Toy Story movies? Why does no one in this movie seem to know anything about Zurg when they constantly talk about him in TS 1? And if they did reveal that he’s actually time travel Buzz, why does anyone care about a Zurg toy in TS 2? Wouldn’t they expect there be another Buzz inside it? I mean, they joke about Zurg being his father in TS 2, and that almost might have made more sense than what they went with. I really wish they’d not made such a point of linking this movie to the world of Toy Story 1. If it’s supposed to be set in the 90’s or whatever, there are things in this movie that never would’ve been made. Honestly the lesbian couple is the least interesting thing about it for all the “controversy” it stirred up. If they wanted to make it the movie Andy would’ve seen, it shouldn’t have felt like a movie Pixar only would’ve made in the 2020’s. They should’ve made it more in the style of their early movies, just as a fun retro callback or whatever. As it stands, it’s just a weird movie all over.
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Almost Famous Extended - 8.5/10 Almost Famous is my favorite movie. This is my second time watching the extended directors cut....which adds around 40 minutes. There are bits and pieces that add to the movie....but for the most part....the theatrical cut is superior, imo.
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Bullet Train 3/5 Pretty funny and clever plot twists but requires a massive amount is suspension of disbelief and being able to overlook cultural weirdness. It’s easy to accept insane coincidences and turns of luck, but harder to swallow that a bunch of hit men are punching and strangling each other without the other passengers noticing or that most of the passengers on a train in Japan are white. Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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Only thing I didn't like about Bullet Train was the CGI happy third act. Fun movie otherwise.
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999): A I'd bet that the concept of very wealthy and powerful people being part of a sex cult (?) was shocking in 1999. Post-Epstein, it's not so much. This is not meant as a criticism of the movie, though, which was engrossing and really creepy in places. I'm not sure I "get" the message of the movie other than 'there's a seedy underworld for the ruling class and we mere plebs have no idea how deep it goes'. e: I tend to agree with Felix Biederman's take on the film - it's about impostor syndrome and class. I liked the contrasts between the 'high dollar' hooker at the sex cult party that ended up ODing versus the relatively poor hooker that propositioned Tom Cruise on the street and ended up with AIDS. I'm confident that there's an entire ecosystem out there that is so outside of the everyday experiences of any of us who post on this forum (and probably anyone we know irl) that it's like another world. Why people in this ecosystem do what they do is really beyond the point because we're not really supposed to know; that world is not "for" any of us, and it isn't for Tom Cruise's character either. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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Sorry for the double post. Avatar (2009): C+ This movie broke the string of movies I've seen recently - The Martian, Get Out, Eyes Wide Shut - that were top tier films I enjoyed watching. It's not so much that I didn't like Avatar but that I felt like Hercules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEQmpVIE4A The movie was derivative. Our very first introduction to Badass Marine Guy, who looks and acts like an Unreal Tournament character, is a hackneyed, cliche "military briefing" speech we've heard a thousand and one times before in countless other movies. I kept waiting for him and Jared Kushner corporate guy to get more shading to their characterizations, and that shading never came. These were not characters; they were one-dimensional caricatures that were only a notch above evilly twirling their mustaches. Only the "good guys" got any dimensionality at all, but not all of them. The helicopter pilot lady had zero problem with her mission until she didn't, and without much explanation decided to switch sides. The villain's plot was about as subtle as a fart in church, and while I can appreciate a good allegory about the evils of capitalism and colonialism (which go hand in hand), this wasn't an allegory; it was like a season 3 plot from the original Star Trek hammering you over the head with its message. The obvious comparison to Avatar is Disney's Pocahontas, which I'd actually call a better movie than this one. The parallels abound: Grandma Willow and the flying flower things (or the Tree of Souls); Kokoum and the warrior guy who wanted Sully to get the gently caress out; the helicopter pilot and Thomas. The thing is that despite being a Disney movie, the characters in Pocahontas were more realistic and complex than any of the villains in Avatar. All the plot points were predictable, all but a handful of main characters had any sort of character growth or dimension at all, and the plot itself compares unfavorably to a Disney movie. I'm sorry, aside from the special effects I just don't get the appeal here. It's a fun watch, but I've seen it done far better in other films. e: I'm too chickenshit to double post after this long review of Avatar. Clue (1985): B F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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See How They Run A Murder Mystery / Comedy set in London in 1953 and staring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan as a pair of police officers investigating the murder. The murder actually takes place in a theater were a performance of Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap is running and a lot of the film is built around the conventions of British murder mystery (along the same lines as Knives Out) and the more familiar your are with that medium, the more you might enjoy this movie.
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Latest movie I saw is Malibu High. Extremely gross sex is throughout this whole movie. It was a fun movie to laugh at though. I would say don't watch though if you need every subplot introduced to be resolved. NOPE was the only movie I've seen since the pandemic that I was glad I risked my health to see in a theater. I also really loved Everything Everywhere All at Once and am glad I watched it at home even though it's hard for me to maintain my interest when I'm not in a theater.
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Malibu High is definitely a wild time, I didn’t hate.
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The Quiet Girl/‘An Cailín Ciúin’ (2022). 4.5/5. Very good. Very sad. Hope it goes on to get some recognition, amazing debut from the director. The Piano Teacher (2001) 5/5. weird people in this film. Bodies Bodies Bodies. (2022). 2/5. Mildly funny at times, fairly boring most of the time. Crimes of the Future (2022). 3/5. Feel like it could have been really good, if half the props didnt look like kids toys. Hatching (2022). 3/5. A better version of Turning Red. The Black Phone (2022) 2.5/5. The most mediocre film possible. Brian and Charles (2022). 3/5. A sweet and fun film. Nothing great. Men (2022). 4/5 Seems very divisive. I liked it quite a bit. Nope (2022). 2.5/5. Meh.
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