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BRATS 2024
So about an hour into this excusably fluffy nostalgia nonsense it becomes clear that, to quote an older review of mine, this is the doc equivalent of Don Simpson flying a helicopter to his school reunion. With each visit to his A-list compatriot's homes, Andrew McCarthy seems to be laying out a fuck-you to anyone who thought they were anything other than successful as a result of the offending article that coined the innocuous but apparently career destructive phrase 'The…
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Oppenheimer 2023
The biggest problem with Nolan's masterpiece - if I may - is that its devastating final moments will never be seen or felt by the people that need to: the psychopaths in power with their fingers edging ever closer to the boom button, egged on by people who believe the end times are a good thing for humanity.
So it's all very well it giving me sleepless nights and Butters-like waking nightmares that the giant mountain Oppenheimer and others climbed…
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Train to Busan 2016
If United 93 was a zombie flick. Dark, exciting Korean horror with a thrillingly simple central premise: zombies on a train.
Slick, witty, emotionally wrought, with hugely creative set pieces throughout, and some haunting horror imagery anchored by terrific performances. A gem.
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Werewolf by Night 2022
Empty pastiche one off that does nothing, goes nowhere, and increasingly irritates with every cigarette burn edit, digitally scratched visual, and vacuously glammed and characterless villain wandering around like npcs in the muddy digital black and white graded photography.
The werewolf transformation is genuinely good, though completely sold by Laura Donnelly's performance.
The problem, for me, is not intent but execution. Every fight is Marvel-typical punchy kicky swingy duck, the black and white is used primarily to cover the therefore pointless gore, the direction stilted and paceless, and the whole project just feeling rote.
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