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  Ma 2019

  ★★½ Added by Paulie Cashews

  Surprisingly good until the third act, where it struggles to bring all of its superfluous threads together. I think I would have loved this if they could have settled on a single motivation for Ma.

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  The Killing 1956

  ★★★★½ Watched by Paulie Cashews 17 Jan 2022 3

  Kubrick still hadn’t developed his signature style yet, but this is a very fun movie about a heist gone wrong. It’s technically sound in all aspects, and I loved how it built up to the big job. Great music too.

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  Dune 2021

  ½ Added by Paulie Cashews 20

  With more overhead tracking shots than you can shake a thumper at, story structure more lopsided than a Guild navigator’s body proportions, and a color palette that looks like someone spilled a tray of yellow and brown paints across the screen, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune brings boredom to a scale never seen before.

  Watching this, I finally zeroed in on what doesn’t work for me about Villeneuve as a filmmaker: he has no sense of the arc of a scene, let…

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  Halloween 1978

  ★★★★½ Watched by Paulie Cashews 17 Oct 2020

  I had seen two John Carpenter movies prior to this one: The Thing and Ghosts of Mars, and my reactions to each could not have been more different. The former was an absolute joy and the latter alternately a joke and a chore. I knew Ghosts was considered a fluke in Carpenter’s career so I still had high hopes going into Halloween, especially since it was seemingly so highly regarded by the horror community.

  And wow did it live up…