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Heart Eyes 2025
It's a killer (harhar) premise and I think Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding deliver some great performances. They have an effortless rapport with each other that makes for some very easy watching.
I do wish the romance and horror elements were slightly better enmeshed though. It felt more like a typical slasher that involved a love story, not like a full combination of the two genres. As a romcom girly I felt shortchanged!
But this feels like the kind of thing that could be a solid franchise and I think they could perfect the balance in a future installment.
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Opus 2025
I think this mostly works! Maybe I just related too hard to Ariel (Ayo Edibiri) saying her plan is to "write about famous people because famous people are inherently fascinating" but I loved her as a protagonist, both the performance and her general characterization felt like a great point of view for the audience.
It carefully builds up the creepiness factor, the paranoia and the claustrophobia mounting until we reach the visceral climax that I had to watch with my…
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Happiest Season 2020
If you meant for Harper to be a sympathetic character, *why* does the first act exactly mirror the set up of Get Out?????
You absolutely cannot convince me that Tipper and Ted are not simply reincarnations of Missy and Dean Armitage. Their houses look exactly the same, for starters.
Honestly, would be down for a Get Out/horror version of this movie, because the situation Abby is in is literally a nightmare scenario. The whole script is weighed down by the…
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