Les Hyènes initially seem to be mercenaries in the same vague, near-superheroic sense that James Bond was a spy, then at the halfway point it turns out war-as-it-is has been driving the plot all along. Saloum would be worth watching for its pair of intense mood-, genre-, & language-shifting dinner scenes alone, but it's a shame its second half keeps getting distracted from its plot & characters by interest-sapping swarm-monsters.
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Prisoners of the Ghostland 2021
You'd think a film with atomic kamishibai and Cage raggedly screaming about his single remaining testicle would, in one way or another, be worth watching, but no. A sparse scatter of sparkling moments buried in a long trench of dull misogynist mush. Good on them, though, for realizing that any post-apocalyptic cowboy posse will, regardless of location, inevitably include ≥1 Frenchmen.
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YellowBrickRoad 2010
The world's a lot of things, but one is a boundless, inescapable battlefield in which one often can't do better than to rest hidden, huddled against a trench wall. The expedition team have faults that the road cracks open, but haven't committed any particular sin that's doomed them. This could happen to me. I could, with great effort, conceive of an emerald destination past the horizon and end up stumbling around the park, clutching my head.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
•Exurb as a cage ratcheted smaller & smaller until the street is an unbridgeable gulf.
•Despite decades of cultural seep, I didn't expect Krueger to be a clown obliged to play by slapstick rules.
