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  X 2022

  ★★★★ Watched by sprizzle 17 May 2022

  Proving you don't need to make this complicated to make things scary good.

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  Ms .45 1981

  ★★ Watched by sprizzle 16 May 2022

  Not really as "fun" as I thought it was going to be. Kind of a hard watch to be honest.

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  Come and See 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched by sprizzle 13 Aug 2014 6

  Jesus Christ. On second thought, let's not send 13 year olds to war.

  This is one of the most powerful war films I've ever seen. I've had a pretty great upbringing thus far in life and I've never personally experienced an atrocity so it's hard to relate or make judgements on how this compares to the real thing. Some movies do a good job of capturing what war can be like. From what I read, films like Saving Private Ryan,…

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  Birth 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched by sprizzle 11 Sep 2014 16

  The next Stanley Kubrick? I don't think we'll ever get another Kubrick...But I do think I'm okay with having a Jonathan Glazer.

  Glazer is an extremely visual director. In that regard, he is very similar to Kubrick. Every sequence is more focused on the frame than what is going on inside of it. Without context, every shot can be pulled out and it's art. The story is forced to work around the frame and the movie pulls much of it's…