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  Hotel Artemis 2018

  ★★ Watched by Sean Hannifin 24 May 2022

  Nice look and feel, interesting premise, but ultimately too all over the place, no thematic coherence; characters are too flat and I don't care about any of them.

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  Don't Breathe 2 2021

  ★★ Watched by Sean Hannifin 22 May 2022

  They breathed a lot more in this movie.

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  A Quiet Place 2018

  ★ Watched by Sean Hannifin 06 Apr 2018

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

  While the suspenseful moments were decent, the film ultimately did not work for me at all.

  Firstly, the premise left a lot of questions. I imagine it was trying to be artsy by leaving out any explanations of where these super-eared monsters came from and how the family copes with simple everyday tasks that make noise, like flushing the toilet or sneezing, but it comes across as the writers just being lazy. Also, where do they get food, electricity, clothes,…

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  Arrival 2016

  ½ Watched by Sean Hannifin 11 Aug 2017

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

  Ugh, I hated this movie. Some very interesting ideas, but it was too slow and ultimately went absolutely nowhere. One thing I don't understand is: Why are they all freaked out when the aliens use the word "weapon"? How the heck did they learn that word if it wasn't used before?

  My biggest reason for loathing this film, however, is its ending. It's one of those stupid saved-by-self-from-the-future deus ex machina endings. Aside from not making any real sense as…