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  The Zone of Interest 2023

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  IMHO the best film of 2023. Director-screenwriter Jonathan Glazer, who makes about one film per decade, returns with one of the most haunting, devasting films about the Holocaust ever created, made all the more unsettling and profound by what it doesn't show - a textbook example of depicting "the banality of evil" that lurks just out of frame, just beyond the wall, but still you can HEAR and sense the ongoing atrocities all around you, relentless, inevitable. Toward the end,…

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  Jaws: The Revenge 1987

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  Simply put, the worst movie in the JAWS film franchise - Jaws The Revenge (aka Jaws 4) amply proves the law of diminishing returns - let's count the ways: Ellen Brody flashing back to scenes from the original Jaws where she wasn't present, another shark unrelated to Bruce that "inherited" a grudge against the Brody's and swam all the way to the Bahamas to attack them (how did he know they were there, a tracking device?!), Ellen & the shark are…

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  Jaws 3-D 1983

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  IMHO the second-worst movie in the JAWS film franchise, right ahead of the abysmal Jaws The Revenge (aka Jaws 4) - saw it as a teen back in the 80s first-run at theater - the effects were fake & cheesy even for 1983 standards, made worse by tacky 3D - not thrilling, scary, or exciting, the only saving grace are some "so bad it's camp fun" scenes and Louis Gossett Jr. chewing scenery as water park owner Calvin Bouchard ("Seal the…

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  Jaws 2 1978

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  While it pales in comparison to the classic, original JAWS, Jaws 2 is an entertaining, serviceable sequel that delivers what it's supposed to: lots of shark attacks - in fact, with a gaggle of teens-as-live-bait, Jaws 2 is a kind of precursor to late 70s/early 80s slasher movies, with the shark instead of Jason on the rampage - the main returning cast does solid work, there are some well-shot sequences (water skier attack, "shaaaaark" attack, Marge's grisly demise, etc.), a…

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