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  Trap 2024

  ★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  It baffles me every time I watch a new Shyamalan movie at how inconsistent he can be. He has legit great films and then he makes things like Trap. The dialogue feels like it was written by child. It’s a frustrating watch.

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  36 Hours 1964

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Starts out a bit like an episode of The Twilight Zone and eventually turns into a typical behind enemy lines type film. I thought Rod Taylor was particularly good in his role.

Popular reviews

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  Promising Young Woman 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Dec 2020

  I went into this film pretty much blind, I did kind of know the basic premise but now that I've seen it I can tell you I wasn't expecting it to hit so hard. Fennell's writing is so strong at capturing perception vs reality and I loved that aspect probably more than anything else about this film. Mulligan and Burnham both give great nuanced performances, the cinematography and editing were also both excellent. I've seen how some people have a…

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  News of the World 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2020

  December Discord Scavenger Hunt - 12/31 - Watch a movie about children or a child

  Paul Greengrass has put aside his shaky cam and allows the viewer to take in the beautiful cinematography of Dariusz Wolski in his latest collaboration with Tom Hanks. Hanks is by far the star of the film but Helena Zengel steals the show whenever she is on screen. The film has a very deliberate pace and even though it moves slowly I was never bored by it. It tells a compelling story and it tells it well.