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  Carry-On 2024

  ★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  I bet Jaume Collet-Serra is bummed the big blockbuster era of his career was such a shitshow, but if that means he’s back in his Temu Hitchcock mode, I’m not complaining.

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Django Unchained 2012

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2013

  During 2012, there was more than one instance of a renowned film critic declaring the death of cinema. But I think it’s safe to say that while Quentin Tarantino is making films as great as Django Unchained, we can dispose of any such notion. There’s a lot to say about Tarantino’s epic dissection of slavery, but simply put, Django Unchained is cinema through and through.

  To not put it simply, with this film, Tarantino cements his position as modern cinema’s…

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  Chronicle 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 02 May 2012 4

  I like CHRONICLE, I really do. But I bet had it not been done in the found footage format, I would have loved it. It's an original superhero story mashed with CARRIE and with just the right amount of Amblin spirit mixed in. And the gimmicky aesthetic just damn near ruins it. I'll give director Josh Trank some credit for cleverly going around the limitations of the format, especially in the end, but all that effort just begs the question…