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Reviews

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  Watcher 2022

  

  Jeremy Heilman ★★★

  Essentially just an exercise in style, this Polanski-aping paranoid thriller comes from a debut director with a great eye and a real knack for milking maximal suspense out of a…

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  Apocalypse Now 1979

  

  Jason Alley🏳️‍🌈🐻 ★★★★★ 6

  My first encounter with Apocalypse Now was some time during the mid-‘90s when my high school history teacher showed the Do Lung Bridge sequence to the whole class. It was one…

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  X 2022

  

  George Wu ★★½ 1

  Ugly, old people are resentful and jealous of your young, sexy bodies and they will sneakily steal your futures away!

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  Conan the Barbarian 1982

  

  Chris Devlin ★★★½ 1

  “Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they will learn why they fear the night.”

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  Blood Simple 1984

  

  Mike D'Angelo ★★★★★ 11

  100/100

  Umpteenth viewing, last seen 2009. (I once again perforce watched the "director's cut," which is an affront to humanity; virtually every trim they made weakens the film, though it's…

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  The Boondock Saints 1999

  

  Eric Henderson ½

  Until sporting the Heisenberg sketch became the go-to visual aid, being a fan of this movie was the litmus test for Who Not To Listen To.

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  Batman Returns 1992

  

  Mike D'Angelo ★★★

  60/100

  [Reviewed this jointly with Batman on Patreon. Hence the in medias res opening.]

  Which brings us to Batman Returns, the sequel that I didn't much like in 1992 and…

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  Ambulance 2022

  

  BrettBuckalew ★★★½ 2

  One of the many things that action maestro Michael Bay is great at (you heard me right, detractors!) is beginning each of his movies with a burst of excitement, whether…