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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★ Watched by killedbyfilm 25 Jun 2022

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

  I’m a ride-or-die Marvel fan, but goddamn, this movie was boring as hell. It took Jonathan Hickman’s terrific storylines from the comics and completely wasted what could have been an entire phase of movies. The only part I actually enjoyed was seeing Mr. Fantastic, and sure enough, they wasted that, too. What a fucking mess of a movie.

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  Sorcerer 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by killedbyfilm 19 Jun 2022

  An absolute masterpiece, and my pinnacle “How the fuck did they make this” movie. A master class in sustained tension, with some absolutely insane locations to boot. I’m in awe of this film every time I watch it, and my view count is easily in the dozens. Just incredible.

Popular reviews

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  The Legend of Billie Jean 1985

  ★★★★ Watched by killedbyfilm 26 Aug 2021

  It’s hard to put into words, but there’s something about this throwaway 80’s movie that grabbed me hard the first time I saw it and never fully let go. It starts as the story of a trailer-trash girl in Corpus Christi trying to get reimbursement for her brother’s trashed scooter from the dirtbag father of an entitled rich kid, and morphs into a semi-epic tale of a Joan of Arc figure fighting the establishment, ruling the media, and disrupting the…

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  The Hitcher 1986

  ★★★★ Watched by killedbyfilm 05 Jan 2022

  I’m torn over this one. Screenwriter Eric Red is an extremely fucked-up individual who killed two people when he plowed his car, possibly intentionally, into a crowded bar in Los Angeles, then seemingly did everything possible to avoid prosecution or financial liability (see this LA Weekly article from 2006). But it’s hard to deny that this is one terrific horror/thriller and one of the best road thrillers ever made. It’s worth watching, because it’s a hell of a watch, but it’s also…