This was gnarly, fun, and with a story that mostly always makes sense and moves in a way I like. That may seem like a low bar but you probably wouldn’t be shocked by how many things fail to meet it. I wish this movie had one less thing going because I found the basic concept of a bunch of kids hoping for something better blindly stumbling into the Nostradamus post Alien pretty cool. I would have preferred it left…
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Scream VI 2023
I didn’t hate this one as much as its predecessor but maybe that’s because I played Stardew as I watched. It was stupid and I immediately knew the killers in a weird way that none of the other entries in this franchise replicates. Scream is a mystery and every Scream movie is some real individual with a knife trying to stab you to death. This movie is uninterested in being a mystery. It immediately telegraphs its killer. It’s more interested…
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Anyone But You 2023
This movie fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of a romcom. Romantic comedies are character studies on how two people change each other. No one is different at the end of this movie from where they began, not really. There’s so many tropes carrying the story that I honestly felt too much was going on. This is wild because I love The Nine Lives of Christmas because it employs so many tropes, but this movie does tropes in place of character. Wedding…
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John Wick: Chapter 4 2023
An absolute blast, sometimes I’d start to feel the drag and then they’d introduce some new complication or switch to a different set piece and it was like my interest had never wavered. My favorite thing about these movies is the emotional through line. Like even though John Wick doesn’t speak much as a character, it’s so easy to understand how he feels from just a look or a blink or a single word. Like when he says “I understand.”…
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