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  • The Substance

    ★½

  • Juror #2

    ★★

  • Presence

    ★½

  • The Beastmaster

    ★★

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  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    ★★½

    This movie yada yada yadas over soooo much of the interesting (and what could have been best) parts of the movie.

    There’s a point where a character offers to teach Furiosa “all there is to know about Road War”, and they skip over that and now she’s just good at Road War.

    There’s a take over of the Bullet Farm. That happens offscreen.  

    A war between two major factions occurs. The narrator literally says “And so the 40 day…

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★½

    Pretentious student film subject matter.  Another take on Plato’s Cave, but with absolutely nothing new to say. 

    World building is nice, but nostalgia isn’t the same thing as having a plot

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  • Fractured

    Fractured

    ½

    Oh man you guys, we've reached peak Netflix Algorithm. This must be the most mathematically generic thriller possible.

    The plot is constructed in such a way that the prediction you make in the first 5 minutes of the film is shroedinger-entangled to be both correct and incorrect at the same time.

    The characters behave in a way so irrational that they can only have been written by an AI whose source code is copy-pasted from screenshots of the computers in…

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★½

    Will someone please take the fish eye lens and pinhole camera AWAY from Yorgos Lanthamos? Throwing it in a random shot just because it looks weird is not a good enough reason to put it there.

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