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| 62 31% | Werewolf by Night (2022) - Rated 21 Apr 2024
"Meh... Nothing much to write home about. It was a bit too clean to be a real homage to the old style horror movies: the story is weak. the only memorable part was the bloodied camera sequence; and they got the Man-Thing right (though it was the same trick they did with Groot; this is what Marvel learned from Disney/Lucas, how to make non-talking characters likeable)"
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| 72 53% | Terra Nova (2011) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"It is good, but not good enough. The setting is interesting and although I understood the contrast they wanted with the surrounding wilderness and the happy-camper environment of Terranova; it doesn't work that well. Sixers angle is good, but Mira cannot carry it. Lucas is not a good enough villain. The special effects are good, the story is okay; but a more survivalist story as first season could have taken this to a second season. Now it looks like it got 69.5 in an exam it needs to get 70"
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| 71 49% | Swamp Thing (2019) - Rated 31 Mar 2024
"It is a huge missed opportunity; because they got the Swamp Thing effects right, the characters are not bad either (Although Avery is a bit too much), but then they go too much classical Gothic Horror. DC always plays it very safe with Alan Moore material; if they just let it go and do something experimental like Legion or WandaVision; it might turn out wonderful. They kept the actual Woodrue story for the second season that will never come unfortunately; I liked the way Durand's acting."
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| 63 33% | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) - Rated 23 Mar 2024
"Even though it has a wonderful color palette and a great meshing of music and visuals (overall Nimroy did a good job as Director); the whole thing is reverse-engineered to bring back Spock basically; and you feel it and because of that it doesn't really work."
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| 82 78% | Jack Ryan (2018) - Rated 23 Mar 2024
"I got bored of spy stuff, but there is a new wave of good work on this and this is one of them. It is a very balanced work: action, plot, drama, character development (acting is top notch too); none of them is over/underdone. Especially the international aspect of it is extremely well handled; at least the dialogue in the other languages I'm fluent in (French, Turkish) was very authentic; things people would say at that moment, in that environment (Hollywood sucks at this normally)."
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| 58 22% | Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) - Rated 16 Mar 2024
"They didn't dose it well; the cheekiness, action and the story does not mesh as well as the first one (the first one was not that great either). But this one is really overcooked; chewy and burnt here and there. It has lots of forced action sequences, and even though they tried some innovative things with such scenes, it feels more like watching CGI figure skating. I will pass on the third movie I think."
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| 74 58% | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - Rated 06 Feb 2024
"This is generally considered the best of the series, but it talked less to me than the First movie. It was more Run of the Mill Space Opera, it did not have the grandeur of the first movie. I can understand the impact of the dramatic ending, especially when it was at the height of its popularity; but that's a feeling that cannot be generated with later watches. Kirk is one of the worst tacticians as far as the leaders go."
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| 84 83% | Split (2017) - Rated 06 Feb 2024
"I gave up on Shyamalayan long ago, but this one is very good as far as the psychological horror genre goes. When he went to his basic talents (sense of impending doom, nice twists (without making the whole movie about the twist), giving good actors great stuff to work with) and removed the gimmicky parts he came up with something really commendable. It had some great photography also, really haunting. McAvoy is brilliant so is Taylor-Joy; I will give Glass a try."
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| 61 28% | Mortal Engines (2018) - Rated 04 Feb 2024
"It's not too bad of a setting if you can forget everything you know about Newtonian physics, inertia, and Command/Control structures. They were so fixated on the "Wow" factor, that they completely let go of the plausibility of the events, even in the premises of the setting. The acting is mediocre, the Shrike storyline was not half bad (Pinocchio becoming Gepetto basically though); but in the end, it feels like it is nothing more than a giant destruction fetish. Good videogame material."
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| 83 81% | Elvis (2022) - Rated 03 Feb 2024
"Baz Luhrmann at his best... Not only his lavish style just brought out the Elvis story much better, but by making a risky but clever choice of telling the story from the angle of the "Evil Producer", the whole film shed a better light on the underlying causes of the Elvis phenomenon. It was informative, entertaining, and touching at the same time and both Butler and Hanks really put together amazing performances. A very nice surprise."
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