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  Review by street ★★★★ 1

  I thought it was a dumb name too, but there's a surprising amount of gardening in this movie! For every brutal, violent scene of post-apoc hoodiemen savagely killing each other there are about 50 that are just some dude survivaling - and at least one time jerking off on his plants. Why do I feel like I'm not selling this very well.

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  Review by russman ★★★★ 2

  That haircut might have been more acceptable with the beard... no, it's never acceptable

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★ 4

  you know how in terminator they imply desperate wiry kyle reese has been yankin n crankin to that crumpled old photo of sarah connor hundreds of times when he shouldve been looking out for robot skeletons who want to kill him... this is a movie about that level of crazed violent post-apoc thirst & its 1 of my faves ive seen this year

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  Review by Shikhar Verma ★★★½

  Consider if Mad Max was a drama that featured a picture perfect, clean shaved, razor-sharp survivalist with a harmonica instead of a doof-warrior with a flaming guitar. Instead of trucks, cars & all the shenanigans there were sexual desires for the memorabilia & only two shells that could favor the one who wishes to get saved.

  Three people can never be two, and two people can never be one. For something that is about the descend into the end of civilization, Stephen Fingleton’s tale of survival has a very powerful, at times haunting, message of trust and loyalty.

  The Survivalist uses it's silence to speak volumes about what needs to be kept at bay, and what should be kept locked in the closet. Fingleton makes looking at a graph of the end of times - scary. His stark look into a place where poison & traps are something out of a creature in a dilemma is painful.

  Part of: Films Of 2016 Ranked.

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★½ 9

  The Letterboxd Era Catch Up 2: The Last Stand

  Remember lads, if you want your film to seem edgy and ultra-modern, you absolutely have to have a wanking and / or spunk shot scene.

  This project really isn't going very well so far, is it. This one sounded like it should be alright. A post-apocalyptic thriller? Yeah, that's something I can get on board with. But no, Stephen Fingleton's in no mood to have any fun here. Instead he's in the mood for a low mood-inducing, miserablist drama, predictable every step of the way, with a stupid ending that has pretentions to be thoughtful but just isn't at all.

  Sure, why not sling in Martin McCann buffing the banana into…

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  Review by Sam Van Hallgren ★★★★

  Hoo boy, that was bleak. But riveting as hell. Vividly evokes a post-apocalypse on a micro scale. Impressive in its dearth of dialogue and its ability to convey information visually. Outstandingly acted.

  Did I mention bleak.

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  Review by FilmApe ★★★★ 8

  Two things:

  I don't think there is a single smile in this film. It is all very depressing, but in a very purposeful way.

  There is a scene in this film that I just couldn't watch, like I had to cover my eyes, and I was seriously squirming. I cannot recall the last time that has happened to me, so I respect the film for getting that response out of me.

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  Review by Thornhill ★★★½

  Angenehm reduziertes Endzeit-Überlebens-Drama, das stark an den naturalistischen Vorbildern von Hillcoat bis Malick angelehnt wurde und in seinem Verlauf eine schöne, aber leider nicht durchgängige Spannung erzeugt.

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  Review by Matthew ★★★½

  Gonna make one of those joke lists where it’s “mia goth sucks a finger”

  Post apocalyptic horniness is a real threat

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  Review by FredM ★★★

  The summary is right.
  Just as this survival (post-apocalyptic?) tale is starting to wear off, the ladies arrive. And they bring problems, and threats.
  Two more mouths to feed, and slowly their true intentions are revealed, but things take a turn and the story tilts. Who is wanting to survive?
  It's not bad, an easy finish, with some tense scenes and The Martian-style sequences, but it's not particularly great either, hence the just-right-of-the-middle rating.

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  Review by Justin ★★★½

  There is a difference between surviving and living.

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  Review by Marc Perceval Guiu ★★★★

  Mia Goth always be a final girl wbk