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  Resurrection 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Dec 2022

  This was one savage psychological maelstrom that captivated then shook me to the core.

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2023

  Now THAT'S fracking ENTERTAINMENT!
  A gloriously decadent celebration of all the darkness and light that birthed movie magic.

  Ecstatically diving into unsanatized debauchery, the sheer sensory spectacle of it all captures the essence of the medium through brazen cinematic bravado. The type of sonic vision which can only be unleashed in a film like this. This is a film that's driving force of destructive excess along with the title scream for a visionary technical marvel of ingenious old school trickery.…

Popular reviews

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  The Raid 2 2014

  ★★★★½ Added

  How can I put this subtly? RAID 2 is the greatest action spectacle since John Woo’s THE KILLER. Nothing short of the benchmark to be aspired too in the future for excitement, cinematography and staging this game changer makes most in the genre seem like light sparing at best. If only every filmmaker could spend 18 months choreographing full contact combat while coordinating camera moves that participate in the carnage. This is a bone crunching high velocity experience that leaves…

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  The Witch 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2016

  Labeling this experience a horror film does a massive disservice to this masterfully Directed slow burn period drama dripping in dread and sorrow. (It would be like relegating PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK a horror and leaving it at that) Ambiguities blur the line between puritanical perception dictating the realities of a family in spiritual and domestic crisis threatened by supernatural turmoil. The cinematography and score conjure a surreal atmosphere that takes us convincingly back in time while the naturalistic performances sprout ye olde English dialogue without a hint of artifice.
  You can read the full review over at filmfrak.com/the-witch/