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  • Love Exposure
  • Martyrs
  • Mulholland Drive
  • On the Silver Globe

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  • The Monkey

  • Mickey 17

    ★★

  • El Topo

    ★★★

  • Jodorowsky's Dune

    ★★★★

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    I'm convinced Osgood Perkins tripped and fell and accidentally made Longlegs because what the fuck was this? One of the most immature horror films I've seen in ages, excruciating bad dialogue where characters won't stop speaking in riddles and I just want to beg them to bloody talk normally, overall just genuinely painful to watch despite the fact I love Theo James

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★

    I've never been a fan of Bong Joon-ho's English language films, the humour just does not translate the same or come across as sharp as it does in Korean. Even the drama in pure comedies such as Barking Dogs Don't Bite comes across as stronger than anything he has done in English, and the comedy in dramas such as Memories of Murder also comes across as a hundred times funnier than anything he's done in English. Not to mention, after…

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  • Companion

    Companion

    ★★

    It has a pretty strong script, but aside from perhaps Megan Suri's character they all struggled to come across as even remotely compelling and the overall tone was bland. When the film is basically a bottle episode, it's important that the one main place it's set in is somewhere we want to spend time or somewhere with some mystery, but for an isolated mansion in the woods it has zero personality and the fact that this was pretty much all…

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    An extreme luxury for this film to exist considering the 1979 remake still looks so fresh and sharp that you could easily imagine it was filmed yesterday, this doesn't hit quite as hard as the two German iterations (or even Bram Stoker's Dracula, for that matter), but Dracula is a beautiful book and I almost wish a new version of it could be released every year. Interesting how Lily-Rose Depp is playing Isabelle Adjani's character from the other remake and…

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