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Recent reviews

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2025

  This film was a bit to slow-moving and dull for my taste. It's strengths, in my opinion, are in the performances, the lush period detail, the visuals, and the soundtrack.

  Late in the film, the Daniel Craig character and his lover venture to a South American rain forest to seek out a doctor specializing in ayahuasca. One thing this movie really should be commended for is the way it captures the subjective experience of the plant's affects on one's consciousness.…

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  Trap 2024

  ★★ Watched 05 Feb 2025

  This started off as an interesting, suspenseful, Hitchcockian-style movie. I was drawn in immediately and thought I might actually enjoy an M. Night movie for once in a long time.

  Then M. Night's daughter starts to act and the movie spirals from a quite decent film into one that is downright bad. Her acting is just so Bad, one of the worst performances I saw in a 2024 film. The director should never cast himself (remember Lady in the Water?)…

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  Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 16 May 2015

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

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  Rashomon 1950

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Mar 2015

  Akira Kurosawa established a unique cinematic voice with his many films and is probably the most famous of 20th century Japanese directors. "Rashomon" is one of his most well-known films and with it, the director laid new foundations in the nature of cinematic narrative.

  Based on a novel, the film tells the story of a murdered man. But, Kurosawa doesn't resort to a straight retelling of one man's killing. Instead he offers a totally original concept in which the murder…