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  A Haunting in Venice 2023

  ★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2023

  The best one in the Branagh series, comfortably, but still fairly forgettable.

  I want to stress that this is LOOSELY based on Hallowe'en Party - a lesser-known and middling Christie. Like, the comparisons start and end with a party on Halloween and apple bobbing.

  I appreciated the elegant visuals and compositions, the gothic mansion setting, and the way that wartime trauma - grief, regrets, haunts from the past - serves as the most confounding misdirect.

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  Jim Gaffigan: Dark Pale 2023

  ★★★ Watched 05 Aug 2023

  There were a lot of diarrhea jokes.

  As someone who enjoys a good old fashioned diarrhea joke, I was frequently amused.

  Not Jimmy G's finest hour but still a good time.

Popular reviews

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  American Heist 2014

  ★ Watched 05 May 2015 1

  "I have a bad feeling about this" is actually a line given to Hayden Christensen in this movie, and this mirrored my own thoughts mere minutes in.

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  Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014

  ★½ Watched 01 Dec 2014

  Wow, where to begin. It's not good.

  I felt every one of those 150 minutes trickle by. So boring. And unintentionally goofy. Impressive early scale and design swallowed up by a dull script with horrendous dialogue and character.

  Aaron Paul, third billing, has about a handful of lines but his 'character' could have been played by anyone at all. The casting overall - Edgerton, Turturro etc. - a major miscue.

  So poorly timed that long stretches of nothing happening are…

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