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The Black Phone 2021

Watched by Jgrandmaster 26 Jun 2022

Solid middle-of-the-road thriller occasionally elevated by its cast and delightfully obtuse supernatural elements. Hawke’s a genuinely unsettling presence here, scary for what he doesn’t do just as much as what he does. He works well as a constant sort of tension as Finney tries to escape. The film’s main issue lies in how it overextends itself. The climax is far too neat in how it tries to bring everything together. It limits the tension. There’s a lot of clever pay-offs…
The Batman 2022

Rewatched by Jgrandmaster 17 Jun 2022

Batman opening the film declaring “I am the shadows” only to serve as a guiding light for the city at the end is so so good, but I’m still miffed they put on this whole show of Bruce painting clues on the floor and grabbing old files only to have all the information about Renewal/Falcone/his parents be directly told to him.