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The Rule of Jenny Pen 2024
What made this one really click for me was that it was truly original in its approach to the elder-care horror meets bully revenge genre. You add into that mix two powerhouses just chewing it up onscreen; Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow going head-to-head and having the time of their lives, but not forgoing the horrors and terrors of being left to die, essentially, in a nursing home with woefully oblivious staff and a sense of losing power; Rush was…
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Cleaner 2025
Martin Campbell's Cleaner is swift and very economic in its plotting; it reminds me of his other equally entertaining films The Cleaner. But here we get Daisy Ridley instead of Jackie Chan. Or Bruce Willis for that matter because, yeah, it is very indebted to Die Hard. My main hand up is... the bad guys, I mean, yeah they are Eco-terrorists, are kind of on the right track? Sure, murder is bad! But the corporate avarice that kills way more…
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The Worst Person in the World 2021
It's depressing to see the sexist, manic pixie dream girl trope still slogged around the screen in 2021, especially to so much critical praise. But here we are. TWPITW is utterly pretentious filmmaking which goes to lengths to hide this fact, which makes it all the more galling; when you have a film that well exceeds two hours, ostensibly centered on a female character but whose *only* interactions are with men, it's pathetic. Renate Reinsve does the best with what…
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Judas and the Black Messiah 2021
The story and real life characters portrayed in this film are far more interesting and complex as well as inspiring and entertaining to watch than they are in this often basic, reduced and very Hollywood version of the radical and luminary leftists of the Black Panther party, led by chairman Fred Hampton in Chicago. The story ping pongs back and forth between Hampton, often too sleepily played by Daniel Kaluuya, older by a decade than Hampton was when he was…
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