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Recent reviews

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  Final Destination 2000

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  Surprisingly enjoyable live action EC comic

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  The Final Destination 2009

  ★½ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  A joyless, plodding slog with shitty CGI that has none of the wit or energy of its predecessors

Popular reviews

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  The Killing Fields 1984

  ★★★ Watched 18 Sep 2023

  The story of the Khmer Rouge’s Year Zero genocide unquestionably deserves to be told, but I wish we lived in a world where that alone would be considered worth telling, and solely from the Cambodian point of view. There’s a harrowing and beautifully shot Herzog-esque tale of horror and survival here, but buried in a white guilt narrative.

  How deep and unconscious are the biases buried? None of the Cambodian dialogue is translated into English unless we see a Cambodian…

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  Carry-On 2024

  ★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

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  duplicate bags that turn out not to have been switched even though we were led to believe they were because the bag wouldn’t fit into the overhead bins but then it ends up being the right one anyway — was that some Christopher Nolan self-referential Schrödinger’s suitcase conceit, or just flat-out incompetent storytelling? Either way it wasn’t even the dumbest thing in this moronic potboiler with charisma-deficient leads

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