This is the best movie I have watched this year -- defined as Oscar year. And I was considering giving it a 4.5 but ultimately end up giving it a 4. I think the reason for this is because the movie can be a bit slow and hard to follow throughout. I think this is in service of a nuanced form of story telling -- most things are shown as opposed to directly stated -- which I think is the…
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Black Bag 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I was very surprised and impressed by this movie, not because it is mindblowingly good, but more because I was expecting it to be a run-of-the-mill and standard espionage action thriller. It ended up having very little action. It was a thriller. And it was pretty clever and intellectual. The performances were above-average and I thought that the plot was engaging and held you in engaged suspense throughout the whole movie. That is to say, the movie was enjoyable all…
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Ash 2025
This is just sexy sci Fi.
I heard that this was originally supposed to be a music video and it definitely feels like that. The visuals are really over the top. There isn't much attention payed to the story. It really is just for the vibes, and I think it is a shame that that was all the movie was for.
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Better Man 2024
A very interesting premise here, a biopic but one done in the Planet of the Apes way. Certainly a novel idea, and I think I understand why Robbie Williams and the director chose to do it this way -- it essentially boils down to many people writing Williams away as a less evolved and base human and musician, and him rising to the occasion and proving them all wrong, proving that he is indeed a and the titular "Better Man."…
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