JoeZarro

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Favorite films

  • Se7en
  • Scream
  • High Fidelity
  • Alien

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  • Better Man

    ★★★½

  • Heretic

    ★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • The Truman Show

    ★★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Hoped (expected?) to love this but I didn't. Everything about Robert Pattinson's performance is worth the price of admission but the rest of the move is a mixed bag. Tonally inconsistent. Would have been much more game for the class commentary and/or satire in 2023 when this was finished filming, or even six months ago. Seeing it now struck the wrong chord.

  • Angst

    Angst

    An efficient and harrowing 75 minutes of terror. As a lover of slasher movies this made me feel squirrelly and uncomfortable in the way that Funny Games did. Not a "fun" time unless you're able to find pleasure in that feeling from your gut that tells you to cut and run. Has an authenticity that makes it feel as though you shouldn't be watching it.

    Mesmerizing cinematography throughout. I haven't seen many films from this era with such an active…

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  • Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701

    Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701

    ★★★★

    Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion just added seven years to my life-sentence. This movie is fierce, energetic, and stylish as hell. Meiko Kaji peers through the screen into your soul and you relish in every moment of glorious vengeance she gifts you.

    For a debut film (hell for ANY film) Scorpion is gushing with vision, visual flair, and a total commitment to the exploitation-genre. Villains cackle with delight as they torment the innocent and the music (THE MUSIC) amps up your…

  • The Forest

    The Forest

    ½

    I am considering the appeal of a suicide forest after sitting through this.