Corbad
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My "better than this one worse than this one" system doesn't always stand up to time and volume; trust the review, not the rating.
My "better than this one worse than this one" system doesn't always stand up to time and volume; trust the review, not the rating.
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| 80 79% | Wicked Little Letters (2023) - Rated 17 Apr 2024
"The cast is terrific, capturing every layer of the screenplay: its humour, of course, buoyed by whimsical direction, but its nuance as well, the central trio often finding meaningful moments of pathos and power in and around the foxy-assed cussing."
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| 85 90% | Monkey Man (2024) - Rated 08 Apr 2024
"Hero Dev Patel really said that trans folx deserve to exert bloody violence against their oppressors. The first half is a little too long and a lot too shaky, but everything after the filthy river beats to a pulp those little gripes. I don't know if I blinked during the climax, as breathless tears dripped down. Exhilarating, inspiring, beautiful."
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| 35 5% | Madame Web (2024) - Rated 02 Apr 2024
"Look, I knew Sony has a terrible track record, but the early reviews were all "Anti-white" and "Woke" and "Pro-feminist," so I'm sure I'll be forgiven for thinking this might actually have some merit. Alas, it has none, aside from how it has infuriated fragile men. I'm trying hard to find another quality, I swear, but there's just nothing! So, for completely different reasons than those above, and because those reviews were cruelly false, I must also call this bad. :("
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| 70 53% | Road House (2024) - Rated 31 Mar 2024
"It's actually very funny. Every time Conor McGregor was on screen he was all but belting out 🎵Now I've had the time of my liiife🎵 - and damned if I wasn't singing along. It's very silly and, though the sound effects occasionally don't line up, impressively brutal, too. Light laughs and heavy hits; mindless fun!"
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| 75 66% | The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - Rated 18 Mar 2024
"The craft - particularly the cinematography - is terrific, but monotonous performance that initially unsettles ultimately distracts and lengthens, making this feel much longer than its two hours. Still, mostly effective and adroitly made, with affecting twists and turns."
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| 80 79% | Dune: Part Two (2024) - Rated 16 Mar 2024
"Once again, the spectacle is everything: awe-inspiring vistas and staggering design pairing with stirring music and cinematography. But here, Villeneuve at last dabbles in storytelling - cleverly making exterior the internal conflicts of the novel. But beneath the film's grandeur and large-stroke genius, there is too-little attention to detail, exemplified by the four different ways "Feyd-Rautha" is pronounced the first four times we hear it."
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| 75 66% | Priscilla (2023) - Rated 13 Mar 2024
"The story and its characters feel soft and distant. To its credit, nothing is ever sensationalized (its scenes of abuse are gently presented), but we are given hazy montage in place of introspection and unfocused time jump in place of character study. Necessary antidotal viewing for anyone who has consumed Elvis media, and occasionally a subtly profound film in its own right, it nevertheless comes across a bit pale."
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| 65 42% | 60 Minuten (2024) - Rated 10 Mar 2024
"It's straightforward and violent and stars a young, buff Robert De Niro with pleasantly nuanced screen presence - what's not to love? (I would also forgive my ex if he brought me a tiny kitten named Onion.)"
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| 80 79% | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) - Rated 10 Mar 2024
"Gorgeous art on the breaking edge of 2D and 3D integration, when 3D was not a shortcut but an enhancement, and a soaring soundtrack and score overcome poorly written narration to center a simple and moving tale of friendship and anticolonialism. A uniquely beautiful experience."
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| 65 42% | The Beekeeper (2024) - Rated 08 Mar 2024
"The flaccid centrist twist at the end almost ruined everything - all the very silly, terrifically inconsistent, beautifully unimportant harmlessness of everything else. Luckily Jason Statham just exists here, uncaring, plodding through ludicrous dialogue and fun action choreo with admirable stolidity. What a hero. Very funny, very bad movie."
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