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  Apartment 7A 2024

  ★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Pretty good prequel to Rosemary's Baby, and even knowing where the story ends up -- and in a way gleefully waiting for that connection -- it was never unwatchable. This mainly comes from the performances. Kevin McNally and Diane Wiest own as the Castevets -- even if Wiest is such a different performer than Ruth Gordon was. There's a featurettte for the film called "Meet the Castevets" and I kind of wish that's what the movie was called. In that…

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  Smile 2 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  This felt like Parker Finn getting to be his own filmmaker and not trying to base everything in his references. Naomi Scott fucking rocks every moment of this movie.

  I can't tell if these two films have reached the pinnacle of what the unreliability of this smiling madness can do, or if there's still room to grow. And with that ending, I guess Smile 3 will hopefully give us something to really smile about.

Popular reviews

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  Captain Fantastic 2016

  ★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2016

  I really wish this movie had a different title, for one; what does "Captain Fantastic" even mean? Secondly, I'm so confused and conflicted over what this film is trying to say or its perspective on mental illness, non-conformative parenting, and child endangerment, that I just can't relate that title to anyone. There is a sequence in the film that shows a child being placed in a rather dangerous situation and the (almost) worst outcome happening—only later the dad (Viggo Mortensen)…

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  The Monk 2011

  ★ Watched 15 Jun 2020

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

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