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  Oh, Canada 2024

  ★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  I appreciate the effort and Gere is the best he’s been in a long time. That said it feels both rushed and languid, never really fleshing out its characters and therefore never really giving you the sense of meaning it is looking for. It’s certainly personal and in that sense you hope it was meaningful to Schrader but there is a significant sadness in an artist who’s last few films have focused so bluntly on mortality but cannot quite find the language to convey their feeling to an audience.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  It’s perfectly fine! Sturdy and well made which is more than you can say about a lot of stuff produced at its dollar point these days. The cast are all good. Can see why it’s a SAG type movie.
  I’m certainly happy it’s making a little bit of money and showing people that something that isn’t action or horror oriented can.

  At the end of the day though it’s pretty devoid of much besides a good time. That counts for…

Popular reviews

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★½ Watched 11 Jul 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Hillbilly 2018

  ★★½ Watched 19 May 2018 1

  It’s an interesting, and well intentioned film that makes a few compelling points, but it’s too unfocused and rose tinted to be truly as compelling as it should be. The central thesis, that the community of Appalachia have been portrayed too simplsiticly and offensively in much of mass media may very well be true, but this film doesn’t always put its best food forward when trying to convince the audience of that. It shoots itself in the foot when interviewees…