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Recent reviews

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  No One Will Save You 2023

  ★★★ Watched 25 Sep 2023

  135/200

  Seemed like a fun picture would love to see it someday.

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  The Origin of Evil 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Sep 2023

  160/200

  The split screen thing had me thinking this was going to turn into something sub de Palma, but I gotta hand it to this movie, it's admirably nasty in a grotesquely entertaining way. I was all in by the first big reveal.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★ Watched 06 Dec 2022 1

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

  50/200

  Sam Cohen was looking for an excuse to leave. We'd gotten a beer at J.M. Curley's a few blocks away from the AMC Boston common, which is sandwiched between buildings on Emerson College’s campus, next-door to the Guy Fieri restaurant and, I think, an escape room. We kvetched about the state of cinema, about how every major awards film was bad, how movies in general were bad now. How we were born at the perfect time to watch cinema…

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  Moonage Daydream 2022

  ★★½ Watched 10 Sep 2022 23

  97/200

  Someday someone will make a movie about David Bowie that doesn’t obfuscate his actual achievements and rely on very literal language of myth but uhh today’s not that day. Stupefyingly unimaginative, this uses footage from movies starring Bowie (footage with one set of specific intentions) and footage of movies Bowie probably watched (with a completely different set of intentions at best tangentially related to what Bowie got out of them, at worst horrifically literal interpretations of what Bowie used…

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