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Recent reviews

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  The Last Ranger 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  Should deservedly win the best short film oscar.

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  The Stepford Wives 1975

  Watched 18 Jan 2025

  35mm archive print at Film Forum. This film is desperate for and deserves a new restoration and physical release. Love the devastating third act.

Popular reviews

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  Nope 2022

  ★★ Watched 19 Jul 2022 1

  First posted on FilmsinReview.com

  
  I had been looking forward to Jordan Peele's latest mostly because of the promise of it delving into Sci-Fi territory and a focus on UFO's. NOPE as a title, holds a double meaning; the acronym N.O.P.E. standing for NOT OF PLANET EARTH and also a reference to the recurring line delivered pointedly by multiple characters as they face a continuing onslaught of strange phenomena.

  
  The film opens on an ambiguous and disturbing shot of a chimpanzee…

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★ Watched 01 Mar 2022

  An excruciatingly long, soulless dirge that’s only redeemed by Colin Farrell’s makeup and Greig Faser’s cinematography.