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  Review by Aaron ★★★★ 24

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  “They are bad people. They should suffer.”

  In My Man Godfrey, the Bullock sisters, Cornelia (Gail Patrick) and Irene (Carole Lombard), are tasked with finding a “forgotten man” as part of a scavenger hunt by the rich and callous. Having helped save the world in the Great War, the forgotten man was, well, forgotten as the Great Depression swept him into unemployment and despair. Cornelia, a champion stoneheart among stonehearts, finds the titular Godfrey (William Powell) at a Hooverville but is rebuffed in her attempt to claim him for a checkmark on her list; Godfrey finds Irene’s scatterbrained charms less easy to dismiss. Verified by the scavenger hunt judge as a true forgotten man, Godfrey lacerates the assembled glitterati for…

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  Review by Jeff ★★★★ 6

  I may be wrong, but I seem to remember people being put off by this movie because of the direction the third act takes. To that I ask: were you even paying attention to the first two acts?

  I myself am still trying to figure out exactly how I feel about this film. The very end didn't really work for me, but that was because I basically saw it coming (and maybe because it doesn't make total sense besides maybe metaphorically).

  But I thought the rest was great, and there were enough little clues and hints that the ambiguity didn't bother me and actually made me pretty excited to rewatch it.

  Oh, and I love when a movie has a scene so brutal my wife has to actually cover her eyes. Extra points for that!

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  Review by haley ★★★★ 3

  genuinely one of the best british horror films i've seen. this was absolutely magnificent on every level imaginable. i don't want to spoil it for anyone, so all i'll say is if you're interested in seeing this, be prepared for a fully thrilling ride from the very start.

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  Review by Nakul ★★★★ 3

  Ben Wheatley's Kill List is an effective slow burn shocker. A tense, gory, darkly comic and utterly creepy horror thriller, whose cold touch lingers long beyond the closing credits. Things take a while to get to the bloody, but when they do it's a quite visceral & grim awakening. It simply creeps under your skin for 90 minutes with barely a false note. Go in as blind as possible.

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  Review by Adam Nayman ★★★★★ 7

  Watched some of this today, ostensibly because the trailer for the Meg 2 is going to lead to much joshing of Mr Wheatley online, and I felt like spending time with the best thing he’s ever made. Which is also, in my opinion, one of the best things of its kind that anyone’s ever made - a folk horror no less authentic for being so modern; an allegory no less lucid for being so inchoate; a tragedy no less affecting for being so alienating. (It’s one of the most brilliantly edited films of its era, open, relentless and daring). I try not to use movies to draw lines between myself and other people, but probably the most irritated I’ve ever…

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  Review by Simon Ramshaw ★★★★★ 6

  "Thank you." - The Priest

  I still have no idea exactly what it is in this film that unsettles me so much. Then again, I think it might be everything. The erratic editing, the echoing, howling soundscape, the dangerously high levels of uncertainty: Kill List is a combination of everything that disorientates the human psyche (or that's meant to). The final act is a bonkers masterclass in discombobulation, and makes you forget that there's actually a plot going on. The end result is a state of confusion and panic, when taking a step back and taking a deep breath with a calmer mind can really help your mental state and your view of the plot. Believe it or not, it makes sense.

  Fantastic.

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  Review by Matt! ★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Tough not to spoil this one! It’s a pretty low key, deliberately paced, tense affair about a semi-retired hitman being reluctantly dragged into one last mission that then takes a third act hard left into cult-ish horror. That said, we see more simmering domestic toxicity between the hitman and his wife than we do outright action or thrills, and that may kind of be the point (?). Religious overtones, literal symbolism, and one fucked up ending all led to me googling the hell out of whatever I had just watched. Was running on only a select few brain cells after a bad night’s sleep so didn’t put a lot of effort into pondering the deeper meaning here, but luckily found…

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★½ 2

  That’s what you get when you fuck with the mighty human resources death cult.

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  Review by russman ★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Cults must get a real good discount on wicker

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  Review by anto 1

  oh fuck, so much violence

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  Review by The Reel House ★ 21

  “This movie is so smart because it starts off with the basis of one thing but then slowly progresses into something completely different”. Yeah go watch “From Dusk Till Dawn” or “The Worlds End” if you want a good gear shift movie because this isn’t it. 

  This film is fuuuuucking booooring. Jesus Christ “you don’t get it he’s building suspense masterfully” no he’s not, the film has no fucking idea where it’s going and it’s blatantly obvious. It’s like if “In Bruges” and “Midsommar” had a baby but then that baby had sex with a piece of shit who has the personally of a plank of wood. Yeah..... that’s this movie. 

  I think the most annoying thing about the movie…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 7

  You know... if you press pause in the right spot at the end of this movie, you can see the very own Ari Aster with a notepad supposedly taking a few notes for his potential first feature film.

  So yeah, while I am not fully gaga for my boy Ben Wheatley, I still can't help but to find an affinity for his work, especially when the man goes full in with the violence and gore in a way thats very reminiscent of S. Craig Zahler. Unfortunately in order to get to this point, there's almost an entire first act and a half of things that granted are weird and have you guessing what's going, yet it slows the movie, at…