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Lone Star 1996
I have to admit that I really wasn't looking forward to watching this. The poster is a snooze and the short description makes it sound like the kind of aimless slow burn that is entirely not my vibe.
I WAS WRONG! TEAM LONE STAR FOR LIFE!
Lone Star uses a murder mystery as the backdrop to explore the connections and contradictions of a small town struggling with multiculturalism, with history, and with progress. For a movie with so many characters,…
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Down in the Valley 2005
An odd, mostly unsatisfying movie that gradually unravels as it progresses. The story of a strange cowboy and a definitely-underage teen girl is filled with so many curious details that the movie is content not to explore. What happened to the parents? Why do people pray to antennas? How did cops turn up so much information so quickly? What is going through the kid's head in the third act that causes him to behave that way?
Instead of exploring these…
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Midsommar 2019
Spectacular set design and a great performance from Florence Pugh weren’t enough to salvage an otherwise languid and repetitive movie. I felt no dramatic tension - the characters seemingly lacked any desires or fears and spent most of the movie waiting for things to happen, just like the audience. It’s hard for me to care about events that no characters care about, especially when anything horrifying happens far offscreen.
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Lost Bullet 2 2022
A friend in college loved the movie Reindeer Games, and the only rationale he could provide was "Man, you can NOT beat a triple-cross!"
I was thinking of that friend when I landed on a four-star review for this.
Yes, Lost Bullet 2 probably hews too close to the first one. The original had a bananas melee with a bunch of cops? This one does too! What about those crazy just-this-side-of-post-apocalyptic car mods? This one ups the ante!
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