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Smile 2 2024
3.25 stars but I’m rounding up.
Rare but not unheard of instance of the sequel improving on the first. I thought the focus on the price of pop stardom mirroring the literal monster feeding on Skye’s distress made for a stronger narrative. The gore and hair ripping was visceral and effective. I liked the concert production too— she sounds like many of the contemporary pop girlies to my untrained ear, and I always like a movie that has to design…
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The Final Destination 2009
Gotta give this one props for being one of the only movies ever to have a prolonged sequence at a car wash and not play Car Wash by Rose Royce. Few positives outside that except our withering male final girl. Reliance on computer graphics rather than practical effects loses most of the charm.
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Nosferatu 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Eggers back with another banger. There are sooo many rats and boats in this movie, yay, yippee!
The visuals in this are incredible. I spent so much time scanning the interiors and the costumes. Finally a movie with some good fucking color grading— I appreciate both that dreams were set in black and white, and the hazy dawn and twilight where the line between dream and reality was blurred. Panning shots were a clever way to build suspense. Willem is…
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Jaws 1975
“What more is there to say?” I said last year… oh I’m saying it
This one feels astonishingly fresh every time. Even as an enjoyer of 70s movies, there’s a certain air to them that moors them in the stylings of the decade. Jaws is timeless— though I’m happy it was made at a time when the shark couldn’t be CGI. Even as the animatronic is a little goofy on close inspection, it still lends a realness that CGI will…
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