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  Promising Young Woman 2020

  ★ Watched 25 Jan 2021 3

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

  Lackluster film and "comedy" in which a woman's friend dies after being sexually assaulted at a party and the resolution and catharsis in this film (that references true events, such as the Brock Turner trial and others), is trusting in a judicial system that continues to let these people face minimal sentences and recover socially as quickly as possible. In the same film that goes out of its way, with Alfred Molina’s character, to show how corrupt these trials can…

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  The Nightingale 2018

  ★½ Watched 04 Dec 2019 1

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

  One dimensional in a lot of ways, the bad guys are very bad, the good guys are -- well they're kind of horrible.

  Sometimes the film, to keep you engaged in its one dimensional themes, a lot like a Gaspar Noe movie, will show some horrific brutality to shock you into caring, although the acting in a lot of these scenes is very questionable, from presumably fresh faced actors as I've never seen most of them.

  For example, a native…

Popular reviews

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  Us 2019

  Added 1

  I remember anxiously awaiting this film’s release. And although I felt lukewarm about his debut film ‘Get Out’, I knew that Jordan Peele was a talented writer who had a passion for the horror genre, and I thought that the concept for this film was unique and interesting. Even after seeing it I can’t say I’ve seen anything like it, while on the other hand I can make a list of all the films Ari Aster was directly inspired by…

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  Shadows 1958

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2019

  John Cassavetes' freshman attempt at film-making is rough around the edges, with severe technical issues and a piggy bank budget it doesn't hide being his directorial debut.

  Looking past those issues and the messiness of it you can see what Cassavete's was trying to get at, there's a heart to this film and its performances where you can tell that everyone involved cared about it.

  I've heard the actors used a lot of improvisation for scenes, which I could feel…