Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder are the reasons you keep watching this tempered drama. The film itself may not be as electric as its real life story but, there is enough good to keep you in it.
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The Alto Knights 2025
Despite a haphazard sequence in the third act that kinda misfires the tension it is trying to build, The Alto Knights is the best mob movie in years. It features De Niro in two of the best performances I’ve seen him give in a decade.
Fuck the critics. This movie is a fucking great in the making.
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The Inhabitant 2022
I wanted to love watching a descendent of Lizzie Borden embrace her psychopathy but, unfortunately, this film doesn’t really embrace that idea at all. If anything, it runs away from its potential. It plays like a missed opportunity which sucks because it’s well made and features some great performances (Mulroney and Bibb, namely). Overall, there’s better horror films out there featuring Lizzie Borden and her axe but if you want something a little different, check this out.
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Men 2022
Rotting female deer corpses, dandelion seeds, apple trees, birthing men and Rory fucking Kinnear. There’s a whole lot in Men and all of it is so on-the-nose that I’m left curious as to whether it is all that shoddily written or if Alex Garland maybe intended for it to give birth (no pun intended) to a plethora of other subtextual ideas. If that’s what Garland’s intentions were, there isn’t enough intellect here to bring them to their full potential. It’s clearly…
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