Quick guide to my ratings: 5*) Essential; 4*) Must watch; 3*) Viewer discretion advised; anything less -- don't waste your time...
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Nightmare Alley 2021
From fairground attraction to the finest saloon, no matter how warped you are, your mark might be someone worse... And remember: the higher you rise, the harder you fall. So never ever do the spook act. As illustrated in this exquisitely grim, dark tale.
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The Sea Beast 2022
Superb animation utterly let down by a script and dialogue so stilted and downright abhorrent as to make you forget the film gorgeous looks.
Heavily based on classics such as "Moby Dick" (and perhaps London's unjustly forgotten "The Sea Wolf), set in an alternative universe full of fantastic giant sea creatures, where pirates have morphed into "hunters" doing the bidding of (18th century?) royals bent on the extermination of menacing oceanic mega-fauna -- with some rather refreshing inclusive gender and…
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Saltburn 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
If Ripley was British and middle class instead of poor, he'd be called Quick, and he'd be seeing how the gentry live it up in their country estates... And seeing that they die, too. A wildly raunchy and very dark tale of class struggle, beautifully filmed.
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