So many mixed feelings. Huge fan of the original Cloverfield. And huge fan of the premise of this film. A woman wakes up in creepy John Goodman’s bomb shelter and is told there’s been an attack. Is he lying or not? Very suspicious. Some evidence is presented which could be convincing…if Goodman wasn’t acting so damn psychotic. I’ve always wanted to like Goodman in this film a lot more than I ever do. I actually think he’s too good of…
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The Quiet Girl 2022
This is the type of film that is rather standard and borderline dull and then in the final moment has an emotional climax that really makes one rethink the rest of the film like “Maybe I was too harsh”. It does feel like that. Because it’s a very unsurprising film of a girl in a poor family sent to live temporarily with childless relatives. The woman spoils her to no end and the man is distant but can be mildly…
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Return to Seoul 2022
"You're a very sad person"
The film sort of had me in the first half and then just left me stranded in the second half. I didn't really care for this main character. I thought the screenwriter must not have been too aware that having an aggressively off-putting person to focus on makes for a very difficult protagonist. Were we supposed to be rooting for this young woman that doesn't care about her family or friends and just seems to…
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Mommy Dead and Dearest 2017
"Do you think she got what she deserved?"
There is a fundamental flaw to a documentary that seemingly hides its' main attraction from the viewer. The interviewer sits down with the real Gypsy Rose from prison who proudly declares at the beginning that this interview is the first time she has ever been completely honest about this event, "even with my lawyers". That is quite a statement. In the end, however, the amount of footage from that interview that is…
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