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Strange Darling 2023
Jesus. This movie is spectacularly good--an intense and electric subversion of a serial killer thriller and the genre's accompanying tropes. At a tight and lean 96 minutes, you won't find any fatty exposition here. A story told in six chapters, it throws you into its pulsing, surprising, and shocking non-linear story with confident direction, incandescent (sometimes literally) cinematography (who knew Giovanni Ribisi had this in him?!), and stellar acting. Do yourself a favor and do no read ANYTHING about this film before seeing it. One of the year's best films.
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Alien: Romulus 2024
When it's firing on all cylinders, this movie is gory, intense, and anxiety-inducing (in a pleasurable way) fun. There's a scene involving zero gravity that I found really inventive and cool. The production design was stellar in creating a cinematic world that feels very lived-in, with callbacks to the first and second films in the franchise (which makes sense as this story takes place between Ridley Scott's and James Cameron's films). But then there are a few really stupid fan…
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Cuckoo 2024
The film's title is apt as the plot is impressively unhinged, but not in any way that makes any narrative or logical sense. The central "twist" is borderline bizarre and laughable were it not for the long tradition of Frankenstein-type tropes. Let's just say I was willing to give the plot some grace, but too many questions were left unanswered, although Hunter Schafer does great, charismatic work with very little material and there were moments of real dread and a few scares.
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
Was it a good film in the sense that it was a self contained story with a strong narrative framework and memorable themes and precise, subtle character work? No. But it was a very fun, fourth wall breaking, meta, raunchy smorgasbord of bloody, gory violence tempered by its cartoonish, over the top style and laugh-a-minute dialogue. Watch this soon if you don't want the surprise cameos spoiled for you.
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