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When Evil Lurks 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A bit of a sting on this one. So many bonus points for creating a seemingly new and cool system of lore, one with a solid connect with the Argentine world, differences between city/country + landowner/tenant without overselling. And then 1) Forgetting about those rules, 2) Having the characters forget about those rules, and 3) Having the characters fail to manifest even Crystal Lake camp counsellor level of rationality. The primal scream at the end is the cherry on the descent, as it moves slowly but decisively from great potential to film school banality.
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The Killer 2023
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After a compelling start, The Killer goes on to repeat itself, though in six fabulous locations! Promising something big just around the corner, and failing to deliver even the basics like motive or character or direction. It’s sad to see the director of Fight Club and Social Network and the writer of Se7en so facilely make a film about nothing, subsumed seemingly by the system they used to hold up to the light. Not so much empty, as it is hollow.
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Lousy Carter 2023
What is generally missing in The Current Cinema, comedy, and character comedy at that. Well-designed consistent characters who interact and bounce off each other and are, heaven forfend, funny. Been missing that too.
Special shout out to Mr. Krumholtz, who takes a character that could be irritating and is instead, extremely watchable. A Raylan Givens/Jim Rockford level performance.
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The Godfather Part II 1974
I saw Godfather Part II almost forty years ago, and thought it sucked. Watching The Godfather recently, I thought fuck it, I was young, maybe I didn't know any better. So I watched Part II again. And I was wrong. It was so much worse than I remember.
The biggest difference between me then and me now is being about to better describe the why of the sucklage, which is simply this: Godfather, Part 2 is pure fan service. It…Translated from by