While it doesn't really nail the landing, a big chunk of this is a sort of meditation/TED Talk on faith which is a major thematic happy place for me, with enough intrigue and gesturing at the supernatural to keep me on board almost all the way through. "I didn't set out to find the one true religion, but unfortunately I did" is a line with such menacing promise that while the final reveal can't possibly live up to it, it's a fun idea to chew on nonethless.
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The Monkey 2025
Finally, a movie that appreciates just how sinister the term "organ grinder" sounds.
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Longlegs 2024
I don't enjoy being a naysayer, but after a monumental groundswell of excitement for this movie, the result was... fine? For a movie that clearly wants to be thought of alongside something like Hereditary, I was surprised by how little thought seemed to be given to the plot and the characters. There's a lot of really convenient plot shortcuts that you would expect from some mid-budget 2000's procedural (including a borderline insulting bit of ADR: "OK, let's go talk to…
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Satantango 1994
At about exactly the halfway point of this 7+ hour movie, there's an extended sequence of - torture is perhaps too strong a word but abuse is definitely understating it - of a cat. I don't mean movie fakery, either. Real cat, really really unhappy. At that point, I realized that I don't really care what happens for the rest of this movie. I'm no longer interested in any of these characters, what they're planning, or what will become of…
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