rilesdavis

rilesdavis

If you can't handle me at my Paul Blart,
then you don't deserve me at my Mall Cop!

Favorite films

  • Little Fish
  • Midsommar
  • Miracle Mile
  • The Truman Show

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  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★★

  • Four Lions

    ★★★★½

  • Eraserhead

    ★★★★½

  • The Grandmother

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★

    I’m having trouble with this one.

    There are some genuinely fun moments scattered throughout. I appreciate the dry humor in its editing and the Looney Tunes-esque performance by Theo James, always wiping bloody viscera from his glasses. And Rohan Campbell as Joey Ramone is particularly inspired.

    Unfortunately, the emotional core of the story plays second fiddle to increasingly tired “LOL so random!” jokes and kills. If Osgood Perkins didn’t feel inclined to trip over himself at every turn with sophomoric…

  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★

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

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  • Scream VI

    Scream VI

    Was Scream 6 good? Was it smart? Did anyone feel anything? Are we lying to ourselves? I don’t know. It was numbing, yet occasionally fun. It was numb fun. Keep making these?


    Nothing landed, kills nor jokes. Well, a body landed. The weight of the death did not. In fact, a lot of it felt weightless. Pointless. Gutless. How ironic. Stab stab. Shrug. Stop making these.


    The acting was atrocious! Perhaps in a clever way? Like the franchise knows that it’s one bad box office opening…

  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★½

    Barry Keoghan ends this film the way I start most days.

    This was fun, the highlights being Jacob Elordi’s performance and a nice soundtrack selection, but, erm.…what was the fucking point? The first act posits the story as an extravagant gift waiting to be unwrapped. By the finale, the pretty paper lays crumpled, revealing nothing but an empty box.