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The Fall Guy 2024
A fun, action-filled rom-com - its Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt doing the things that they do individually with palpable chemistry to bring them together.
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Longlegs 2024
Longlegs is stylish and tense. It flares in all the right places at all the right times. The result isn't just a unique film, but a nervewracking thriller that surprises you through its narrative and tone and visuals and score. The wake of that surprise is a visceral reaction, its the source of this film's potency, it's its fountain of creep. For example, the composition during the detective montages took what could have easily been a tired narrative and made…
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 2024
This movie is either playing 4D chess to set up the later Chapters...or it's just (mostly) bad. There were some moments of genuine tension. However it was overshadowed by the way this movie forced similarities to the original. Of course we expect many similarities -- same characters, same general premise, etc. But even in two home invasion stories with the same exact antagonists, they would unfold differently! Instead this movie managed to plagiarize itself - stitching choreography from the first…
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Poor Things 2023
This was so strange and hilarious. There's not much to say about this movie that hasn't already been said. However, I can say this: this movie finally helped me understand why I felt Yorgos Lanthimos's previous films were just okay. When you compare something like The Lobster to this movie, you can see that The Lobster was Yorgos holding back (maybe intentionally, maybe not). With Poor Things he unleashes fully - in style, in tone, in story - and the effect is to breach a threshold that lets you savor in the full-bodied style of Yorgos.
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