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Smile 2 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Scott gives an insane performance - maybe the best horror performance since Collette in Hereditary? The only thing really holding me back from loving this is that with the ending (which, on its own, rules), I just can't understand what this story is overall - It is fun to try to parse what is actually happening and what isn't, but by the end it just sort of seems like nothing actually happened, and that's not entirely a satisfying rug pull.
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Civil War 2024
It's so close to being phenomenal, just can't quite get there. I think it is fine that it doesn't explore any of the political or social aspects of its story, though I think there are (albeit broad) clues around the edges. Had me thinking that there aren't that many films made about fictional wars and that obviously poses some challenges not having the real-world context. Where I think it mostly loses me is in the end, particularly with one character's…
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