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Benedetta 2021
You take:
1 cup Ridley Scott-style historical epicThen add:
1 cup Nunsploitation (*sexually explicit)
1 cup arthouse sensibility
1 cup Starship Troopers-style subversive buffooneryMix, knead and put it in the oven at maximum temperature for 131 minutes, and what comes out is a fully loaded Verhoeven pudding.
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Let Him Go 2020
A neo-western full of grief, bitterness, disillusionment. When the sole light in your life is your young grandson. And you find out that he's in trouble.
Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are excellent as the retired couple who must buckle up to save their only descendant. And Alberta, Canada delivers a convincing performance as North Dakota. While the storytelling is otherwise on the generic side - it's a film that would have benefited from more care put into it, a…
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020
The pain of taking your new girlfriend to meet your parents for the first time. And/or the pain of going on a long excruciating trip to rural America (hillbilly country) with your new boyfriend to meet his horrible parents for the first time. The horror of being in a relationship with another human being at all. Learning to know that person, his least flattering traits, his inadequacy, his parents, the miserable place he grew up. The terror of having your…
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Green Room 2015
Every once in a while a film comes along that makes me think "I wish I had made this" - and Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room is one of those. Intense, anarchic, balls to the walls. Genuinely scary and claustrophobia-inducing, and gory to boot. This is the way to make a low-budget contained thriller. This is pure.
