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Ready or Not 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Knives Way Out!
A total blast. Samara Weaving is a fantastic lead and the very silly premise is incredibly compelling.
The ending is the one we all wanted and it is satisfying. But it also veers somewhat too much into SNL skit territory, which undercuts a lot of the good character work the actors put in. I can’t help but think there is a really powerful ending in here when you swing things the other way - where the curse…
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Harold and the Purple Crayon 2024
Kumar is a better scene partner than the purple crayon.
Also: Stranger than Fiction for kids
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Nightmare Alley 2021
Can’t hate this. Cate Blanchett & her office design deserve 3.5 stars on their own. The other half 0.5 star is for all the other sets & all the other actors, all of which are fantastic.
Overall, its a satisfying, dark little gothic melodrama that probably could have been a great miniseries with more backstory.Translated from by -
The Last Duel 2021
Jodie Comer is fantastic & Ridley Scott sure knows his way around a grimy medieval epic. The structure is interesting, but it could have made the point just as well that Lady Marguerite was just an object that Matt Damon & Adam Driver projected their own subjective masculine narratives onto without chaptering each of their perspectives. In a way it lessens the impact, because Marguerite becomes the subjectively skewed hero of her own chapter, just like Sir Jean and Jacques were, and…
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