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Black Bag 2025
After releasing one of my least favorite movies this year, the wildly inconsistent ghost film Presence, Soderbergh turns it around and delivers my personal favorite of this year so far. Black Bag plays with a high stakes plot about a mole in a secret intelligence agency leaking information that could kill thousands, like something you’d find in a Bond or Mission Impossible movie. But it doesn’t use those stakes for big action set pieces. Instead, it’s more like a romance.…
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Police Story 1985
Police Story is really something special. To say that it’s a miracle that Jackie Chan survived the myriad of absolutely insane stunts in this would be the understatement of the century. This has to be some of the most dangerous stunt work ever put to film, and the best part is that it is in service of such a goofy comedy. Rather than a self serious action narrative, this plays like a series of loosely connected comedy skits for the…
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In the Lost Lands 2025
A movie that absolutely radiates cheesy early 2000’s fantasy action energy. The type of movie you’d rent from blockbuster circa 2006. It’s wildly uneven and unfocused, verging on incomprehensible at all times, and full of corny, batshit spectacle that would have felt at home about 20 years ago. I loved every minute of it.
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Novocaine 2025
This is a very strange watch. It’s the most boring, paint by numbers action comedy script, clearly written for mass appeal, combined with some pretty gnarly hyper violence that could be a real turn off for the masses that the film is desperately trying to appeal to. The whole thing is at an odd intersection of accessibility and provocation, and the final product is confused and quite frankly not good. Best part about seeing this movie is that I won’t have to see the trailer for it before another movie ever again.
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