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Recent reviews

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  The Electric State 2025

  ★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  I didn't hate it. It has an old school Alan Silvestri score, an orchestral version of Journey's Don't Stop Believin', Stanley Tucci, decent action beats and solid effects ... but it's creatively bankrupt, the robot-characters are more human than the humans and the bare bones storyline is dull and confusing.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  This material is right up my alley, and yet I should have liked it way more than I did ... it didn't quite work for me, especially tonally.

Popular reviews

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  Meg 2: The Trench 2023

  ★★★ Watched 08 Aug 2023

  It's incredibly stupid and I kinda loved it in that guilty pleasure-kinda way. Unlike the first Meg - which I tought was cookie-cutter and boring, bar a couple of moments - this one leans into the ridiculousness of it all and is very self-aware. Director Ben Wheatley - an atypical choice for a project like this - clearly enjoys his time behind the camera and injects the film with dark comedy and a "kitchen sink"-mentality. At one point a villain…

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  Violent Night 2022

  ★★★½ Added

  Extremely dumb-but-in-a-good-way anti-Hallmark Christmas fodder. Very violent and darkly twisted. I loved every Die Hard-inpired second of it. Some Righteous Gemstones-vibes thrown in for good measure (thanks to Edi Patterson). The Home Alone-parody had me - not unlike its victims - in stitches. The chimney-gag: brutal. And David Harbour as cranky Santa? Chef's kiss. Also: next to Harrison Ford as Indy, Harbour knows how to take a punch and milk it for every comedy nugget he can find. Violent Night…