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| 2 17% | Bad Boys (1995) - Rated 23 Apr 2024 |
| 2 17% | Bad Boys II (2003) - Rated 23 Apr 2024 |
| 4 55% | High Tide (2020) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"a stuck up lush who "loves a good dick" swans around her fancy country home while a trio of working class men rebuild her barbecue. she fucks the white boss and talks down to the minorities, they respond with passive-aggressive, judgy home-invasion intimidation tactics. it's The Carpenter by way of chabrol and Elle (gloria carrá with a huppert level perf); you've seen it before, but it's not so simple in delineating power dynamics/moral binaries and it's pitched/shot to uncomfortable perfection."
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| 3 36% | Nasir (2020) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"all about the friction between the titular minority's physical reality and his inner life, shot in popping 16mm but also boxing him into intimate 4:3, decontextualising him so his fate comes out of nowhere unless you're really paying attention. there's something experientially truthful in that, but the choice of how to depict that fate turns an admirably gentle nudge toward empathy, introspection and appreciation of beauty in the everyday into something more tidily political and patronising."
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| 3 36% | The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"time to admit my beloved iannucci has never made a great film and likely never will. a runaway train of tongue-in-cheek whimsy and wholesomeness is a refreshing way to approach the historically dourpilled dickens and i can't hate this accessible middle-aged trifle on writing as a wellspring of healing, love and community, but it hardly plays to the strengths of a cynical absurdist who always thrived most when savagely satirising the establishment and its media. shouldn't he be angrier than ever?"
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| 3 36% | Zombi Child (2019) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"like usual i'm basically aligned with bonello's perspective, but you gotta make a movie out of it man. if you start with a lecture about the ouroboric nature of revolutions and end with a haitian man declaring "it's over, i'm not a slave anymore", the middle needs to be more than a 1-4-1 zombie-slave metaphor, a heartbroken white chick appropriating voodoo and a young PoC self-actualising by proclaiming poetry into the camera and making Suspiria grunting noises in the bathroom cubicle."
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| 3 36% | Color Out of Space (2020) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"had a good time with cage's bizarre trump-jack torrance hybrid, but maybe i'd prefer a bad time? a lovecraftian time? the grotesque, distressing biological fusions do HP some kind of justice via '80s body horror, but the rest stinks of nu-horror fashions: pseudo-cosmatos psychedelia, (creepyp)aster elevated horror flexing, thematic overstatement (sometimes veering the other way into Unmotivated Creepy Shit bingo or murky implications that barely register) and Stranger Things netflix teenanigans."
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| 2 17% | Bad Boys for Life (2020) - Rated 20 Apr 2024
"well made and surprisingly moving in places (pantoliano4lyf), it's a humane corrective for the vacuously, gleefully repulsive BB2, directed by a belgian-moroccan duo who reject bay's US fetishism. it's also more... ordinary. less funny and less awe-inspiring, certainly lamer. it's what always happens when you suppress that lizard brain and settle down, grow a lil maturity and humanity: it's dad shit. smith sarcastically sings "good men good men, whatcha gonna do?" at one point, and you feel it."
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| 2 17% | Pete Davidson: Alive From New York (2020) - Rated 22 Feb 2024
"louis ck is an outed and confessed creepy fuck and i still don't believe he was the asshole in this unfunny douchebag's opening story. it is a great story though (you can switch off once it's done)."
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| 4 55% | Sam Morril: I Got This (2020) - Rated 21 Feb 2024 |
