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  Hereditary 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Jun 2018

  When horror is done right, terrifying, heart-stopping horror, it grabs every one of your senses and makes you hyper-aware of all of them. It lays in wait, biding its time and revealing just enough throughout until the story comes crashing together at the end. It has a grounding in something real and human so that the horror feels even more imminent. Considering that definition, it's not an exaggeration to say that Hereditary is horror done perfectly.

  For a period, you think you can call…

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Robert Pattinson and Toni Collette. When your two favorite weirdos get together to achieve unfathomable levels of join weirdoness. 

  Okja and Snowpiercer felt like more successful versions of this story, but I don’t care just keep giving Bong Joon-ho money.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  Black Bag is like if you took Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and set it in the world of James Bond designed by Architectural Digest.

  Act two of Soderbergh's career is less about creating anything new (save for Presence rather doing what he does exceedingly well. That is creating sleek, thrilling, engrossing and entertaining popcorn movies that do just enough to satisfy the appetite for a solid 90-minutes of escapism.

  Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender have more erotic chemistry than anything in B*bygirl.

  A delight.

Popular reviews

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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 02 May 2022 7

  Don't worry, Sam Raimi fans. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness fully goes horror—jump scares, body horror, a smattering of diabolical kills and all. It's an MCU movie but has Raimi's creepy groovy campy deranged DNA all over it. Start the Elizabeth Olsen Oscar campaign. It's messy, uneven, and ridiculous but also may have made a play to be my favorite MCU movie of all time.

  Full review on smash cut

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 May 2022 1

  AFTERSUN is one of the best depictions of depression I’ve seen in film. Beautifully wrought with shots and score that play like a memory on loop. The last 10 minutes had the entire audience sobbing. Paul Mescal should be in the Oscar conversation. In tears. A masterpiece. #Cannes

  My full review is on smash cut