Taking every superhero backstory cliche that has been sitting out on the counter for two decades into a blender to produce a frothy lump of discolored goo to sip on for two hours. The fruitless efforts to make something out of a putrid script and concept just underlines how bad the bones are to this thing. No movie with a Russian patriarch Russell Crowe and the Rhino should be so sleepy, but 20+ mins of flashbacks and meandering yet so very familiar surrounding story adorned with grey sheen and turdy cgi will do the trick.
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The Gorge 2025
Name your recent video game monster and it is here in its laziest form yet, guarded by two nitwits who rather engage in the most belabored quirky romance possible because what else can we do but look at this formless flatly lit streaming movie bile wrapped in truly overkill exposition. I can promise film writers that cutting 30 mins of backstory and explanation from your scripts will be more than worth the chance that a couple of people might need to look up what is happening on Wikipedia while they’re scrolling on their phones.
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The Whip and the Body 1963
So incredibly shot, the deep blues, bruising purples, deadened greens and traces of flame reds set against some of the most evocative black and darkness images that I can recall, that even if this slows some when Nevenka is off screen it still just is a wonder. The descent into doom, a soul tearing against repression and inexplicable desire. It is in the whippings that the film shows connection, passion, anything beyond the slow unraveling of familial decay. The colors hint at torture inside and out, the pacing a neverending dream filled with traces of lust washed down with anguish.
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The Hitch-Hiker 1953
The bleakness of the noir is felt in the endless desert sun, those bright dusty roads so empty the sight of a passing mule is a shock. A sweaty and propulsive film, with each pit stop having jolts of force (the headlines flashing on for a chase, Collins finally breaking). Talman plays the killer with the sardonic bullying glee when his pistol’s barrel is trained square on his victims and then a crumbling cruelty whenever he doesn’t have the upper…
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