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A+
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Jackass Forever
(2022)
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Matt Looker
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A film that can unite every country, every culture, every political leaning with the universally hilarious sight of tiny boxing glove arms rapidly pummelling a fat mans nutsack.
Posted Feb 03, 2022
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2/5
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Wonder Woman 1984
(2020)
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Matt Looker
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If, one hour into the film, you realise you haven't seen much actual Wonder Woman action, you don't have to look far to see the reason why: she doesn't have anything to fight
Posted Dec 30, 2020
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4/5
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Tenet
(2020)
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Matt Looker
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Nolan doesn't seem to care too much about leaving his viewers confused. The question is whether a confused audience can still be an entertained audience.
Posted Aug 31, 2020
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Cinema Verite
(2011)
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Kirsty Harrison
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It's difficult to watch the innocence of a family be exploited, but at the same time fascinating to see how fragile marriage and family can be when it's held up for scrutiny.
Posted Jun 08, 2020
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2/5
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You, Me and Dupree
(2006)
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Ali Gray
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You, Me And Dupree is a film that is almost instantly forgettable. Even now, a few hours after watching it, I'm struggling to remember character names...
Posted Apr 22, 2020
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3/5
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
(2020)
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Matt Looker
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Harley Quinn really finds her feet and moves on from the Joker, and from Suicide Squad, and she is stronger and better for it. It's just a shame that she takes so long to get there.
Posted Mar 05, 2020
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4/5
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The Invisible Man
(2020)
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Matt Looker
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Between the dark territory that the film explores ... and Moss' gripping portrayal of a woman on the edge of her sanity ... this Invisible Man movie has giant invisiballs
Posted Mar 05, 2020
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C+
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Velvet Buzzsaw
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Velvet Buzzsaw isn't an objectively bad film by any stretch, it just feels held back.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B+
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Isn't It Romantic
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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It's a deft setup for a number of clever sight and continuation gags as romcom tropes are flipped and flipped again.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C+
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Behind the Curve
(2018)
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Luke Whiston
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The subjects are hopelessly blinkered and need either a good talking to or, in the worst cases, intervention and rehabilitation.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C
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Triple Frontier
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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There are at least three or four good films buried within Triple Frontier but they went with the surface level stuff and called it a day.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B
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Paddleton
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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A drily ambling exploration of masculinity and overcoming self-imposed barriers...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B+
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I Am Mother
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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This is where I Am Mother distinguishes itself - bypassing doomsday to what happens in the aftermath, and how we come back.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C+
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Period. End of Sentence.
(2018)
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Luke Whiston
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Period. End of Sentence. may be a fairly flimsy documentary that never lives up to that puntastic title, but what it does do is serve as a necessary conversation starter.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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Unicorn Store
(2017)
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Luke Whiston
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Maybe we should start celebrating how close we came to fulfilling our dreams more often - that might encourage us to not give up and find a way to realise them eventually.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C-
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The Silence
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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The Silence is a dull affair that reads aloud from many pages in the Big Book of Horror Tropes...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C+
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The Highwaymen
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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It's a shame, then, that this meeting of weirdo star power is never more than pedestrian...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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D+
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Shaft
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Whatever Shaft is saying about race, authority, age, gender or masculinity - which are interesting talking points no matter how badly fumbled they are - I keep going back to the rancid humour.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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Elizabeth Harvest
(2018)
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Luke Whiston
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Elizabeth Harvest is an effective enough sci-fi thriller which puts the science on the backseat in favour of shock twists.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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Point Blank
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Point Blank takes a by-the-numbers plot and floats to a finish. There's nothing wrong with that. Just nothing note-worthy. And in the battle for our attention that's not going to pay the bills.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B
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See You Yesterday
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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As a debut feature from writer-director Stefon Bristol and co-writer Fredrica Bailey, See You Yesterday is an ambitious sci-fi in its own right, and a worthy entry into the canon of black representation.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C+
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Always Be My Maybe
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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...a noble idea, but nothing close to the near-philosophical musings on life, loss, belonging and contentment is found here.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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Rim of the World
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Films aren't just a collection of sensation-grabbing set-pieces - they have rules to engage with your brain, and viewers need someone to connect with.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C
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The Haunting of Sharon Tate
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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It's a shame spiral all the way to the bottom of the barrel. You can make your own helter skelter jokes.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B+
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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It's refreshing and never not genuine.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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The Wandering Earth
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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The Wandering Earth isn't a bad film at all if you want to kill a few hours wondering what is going to explode next - it's just hampered by an overly-rigid and predictable structure.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C-
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Wine Country
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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This seems like one of those films where everyone got in a room with a rough idea of what was happening and ad-libbed, expecting the results to be natural cohesive comedy genius.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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A
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The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience is a dizzying mix of music and visuals that balances itself perfectly between overt ridiculousness, telling a bittersweet story, and respect for the craft.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C+
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The Perfection
(2018)
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Luke Whiston
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It's difficult to know when bungled takes are compensated by good enough film-making that the end result is acceptable...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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D
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Polar
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Polar is a cliched, sloppy mess of sub-standard action and forgettable lines that might entertain someone who has never seen a movie from the last decade of R-rated action cinema.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C+
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Murder Mystery
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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It would be welcome to see more movies between them in the same vein, even if Murder Mystery was a bit of an uninspired trek...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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Avengement
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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While Avengement isn't exactly a classic in any regard, it's a step in the right direction for a new breed of British thumpfests that - if Adkins can wield his sensibilities correctly - may just begin to rival their Eastern origins.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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C+
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In the Tall Grass
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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It all sounds intriguingly mysterious, but in play it's a frustratingly wrought sequence of vague weirdness that seems to be weird for the sake of it, until finally it has to somehow end.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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The challenge is how to retrofit backstory to a format that was never meant to have any story at all, which hangs a lot of faith on an audience tuning in that probably weren't all that curious...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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Fractured
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Basically what I'm saying is we've seen this film several times before - but that's not necessarily a bad thing. There's plenty of room for contemporary remakes/re-tellings/rehashes...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B+
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Guava Island
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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In just under an hour we get a tight and surprisingly dark plot with a powerful message about the evils of capitalism, charismatic performances from all involved, and some pleasing visuals of the island.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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The Laundromat
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Ultimately you'll get the most out of The Laundromat if you're a Soderbergh completist, or looking for some slightly dated, mildly bizarre lightweight human drama inviting you to boo and tut at the screen.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B+
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Earthquake Bird
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Earthquake Bird is definitely a cut above Netflix's usual fare. On a surface level the film doesn't have that weird plastic sheen Netflix releases always seem to be cheapened by.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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D-
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6 Underground
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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It's not clever. It's not classy. He thinks it is. But it's bold and tough, and you will respect the awesome might of military technology, else be visited in the night by wicked-rad army ninjas in stealth Blackhawks...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B
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The King
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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...between Chalamet's solemn commitment and Pattinson's overt silliness there's an impeccably well made film, that feels authentically grounded when it comes to the costumes and interior decor of the Middle Ages...
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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B-
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The Knight Before Christmas
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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It's all harmless enough, and I'm not afraid to admit that despite my best efforts to be cynical I actually warmed to The Knight Before Christmas.
Posted Jan 08, 2020
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A-
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Atlantics
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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The result is an unsettling tale of human plight and otherworldly reckoning that is haunting in every sense of the word.
Posted Dec 20, 2019
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4/5
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
(2019)
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Matt Looker
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This follow-up feels like a lack of conviction from the franchise as a whole. This is despite the film being just about the best possible version of a final Star Wars film.
Posted Dec 19, 2019
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B+
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Dolemite Is My Name
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Murphy needs a good palate cleanser for a number of reasons - and in Dolemite Is My Name he's found it.
Posted Dec 17, 2019
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B
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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If you enjoyed the original series and respect Gilligan's commitment to giving Jesse a send off, you'll probably get a lot out of this extra two hours of screen time.
Posted Dec 17, 2019
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B-
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The Irishman
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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...still a treat for us to see these giants of cinema coming together to do their thing but the wear is beginning to show, even if the will is strong and the mind is still sharp. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
Posted Dec 17, 2019
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A
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One Cut of the Dead
(2017)
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Luke Whiston
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There's nothing else like it, and it is really, really good.
Posted Dec 17, 2019
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B+
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Knock Down the House
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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Lears makes efficient use of time, diving just enough into the lives of the candidates to understand where they're coming from, but not making them come across so weepy as to be ineffectual.
Posted Dec 17, 2019
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B
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High Flying Bird
(2019)
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Luke Whiston
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A thoughtful, cerebral entry in this black renaissance period.
Posted Dec 12, 2019
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5/5
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Knives Out
(2019)
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Matt Looker
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Beyond this just being a fun, entertaining film, the real achievement is in [Johnson] understanding exactly what his audience is thinking at all times.
Posted Dec 04, 2019
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