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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Excellent performances.
  Excellent direction and cinematography.
  Great score.
  Immaculate vibe.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  After the critical and commercial success of Parasite, Mickey 17, feels like Bong Joon Ho wanted to do a fun one more in the style of his previous films like The Host or Okja.

  Mickey 17 has a very broad comedic style that I just didn't vibe with. Some people will. There were people in our showing guffawing through the entire film but there were scenes where we looked at each other bewildered at what those people found so funny.…

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  Trap 2024

  ★★★ Watched 04 Aug 2024

  It's hard to start reviews for Shyamalan films without immediately dogpiling on what didn't work, or what seemed far-fetched or implausible, and then end the whole diatribe by writing, "I liked it more or less. 3 stars."

  Since I'm not clever enough of a writer to come up with a Shyamalan twist to subvert that idea here's where Trap kinda falls down for me.

  When Shyamalan picks a genre or even more so a thematic element, comic books for Unbreakable,…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2025 1

  Stylized, sexy, scary, sardonic, and stupendous.

  Robert Eggers delivers again with his take on Nosferatu, showing us a world where the vampire is truly the undead monster it was envisioned to be.

  Eggers and his team are also working at the height of their craft. Everything from the production design to the costuming to the color grading is near perfect.

  I've heard people balk at the intense sexual nature of the film or, unsaid but felt, the intensity of the…

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