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Recent reviews

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  Grafted 2024

  Watched 19 Feb 2025

  Can confidently say this is the only movie in existence that features both an Eyes Without a Face homage and a Byron Leftwich Jacksonville Jaguars jersey

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  Love Hurts 2025

  Watched 06 Feb 2025

  this movie harkens back to what it was like to be a Buffalo Bills fan in the late aughts in that Marshawn Lynch’s scant appearances momentarily distract you from the fact that you’re watching an incoherent mess

Popular reviews

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  Borderlands 2024

  ★ Watched 09 Aug 2024

  This film is unique in that it’s more interesting a case study and product of Hollywood than it is an actual movie. What started as a reportedly stellar screenplay penned by the person who created 'Chernobyl' somehow, someway fell into the hands of a gaudy horror director, who subsequently made the strangest possible decision at every turn. There are elements here that, if handled with more care, could have resulted in a fun science-fiction film, but what we’re left with…

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  Smile 2 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Oct 2024

  I thought Parker Finn showed immense promise as a director with Smile, but the story told in his debut was ultimately too familiar and derivative of better films in the genre. That’s why Smile 2 intrigued me—I was hoping that with a feature under his belt and a more conceptually inventive and interesting premise, Finn could more fully realize his potential as a filmmaker and craft a truly memorable horror flick as opposed to inoffensive pseudo-elevated jump scare fare with…

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