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  Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 1995

  ★★★½ Rewatched 18 Oct 2017

  Before beginning this review I must emphasize that I'm very heavily biased, as I have fond memories of watching this film repeatedly as a child, which is bound to have coloured my current opinion of it. With all that said:

  I'm not exactly proud to admit that I laughed like an idiot. But I did laugh like an idiot.

  Would Watch Again: Yes

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  Goodnight Mommy 2014

  ★★½ Watched 14 Oct 2017

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

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  Enemy 2013

  ★★½ Watched 28 Sep 2017

  I didn't mind the slow pace of Arrival, as it felt like the film had a lot of lore and thematic ground to cover which justified the running time. In this case, it felt as if the screenplay was written as a one-hour TV drama, the project was greenlit as a feature-length, and they just decided to pad out the running time by one-third by adding in loads of extraneous shots. This is a roundabout way of saying the film…

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  It Follows 2014

  ★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2017

  Eh, it was okay I guess.

  I'm increasingly starting to get the impression that this generation of film critics will heap critical adulation on any film that makes even the most cursory effort to give off a pseudo-80s vibe. In this case the John Carpenter-isms of the score seemed jarringly out of place, even a little campy. The dialogue is no better than you'd expect of any "dead teenagers" movie. Generally solid performances, great visuals, it kept me watching till…

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