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  • Paris, Texas
  • Total Recall
  • The Thing
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

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  • Cliffhanger

    ★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★½

  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    ★★★

  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    ★★★★

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  • Cliffhanger

    Cliffhanger

    ★★★

    Some of the best slo-mo squibs use alongside some of the worse martial arts fighting I've ever seen. I imagine the fight choreographer taught the cast a combination of krav maga and Mortal Kombat and called it a day. Also, despite his character being American military, John Lithgow does an English accent thar makes him sound like Stewie Griffin.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★½

    While this is a "good" film, full of great moments, it really didn't strike a chord with me. Firstly, I feel the story was lacking something - an endpoint, really - and that the epilogue is maybe one of the strangest acts of narrative self-sabotage I can recall. Not the AI use or even the revelation that the building was based on a death camp, but I was just left thinking "So this is where you're going to end things?…

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  • Monster

    Monster

    ★★★★½

    The defining image of this film for me is its first - young children running out into the road and intercepting a line of firetrucks, sirens blaring, excitedly asking where they're going while being shooed away as half a small tower block is up in flames down the road.

    The image I want to remember most is the view from under a mud-flooded window as rain falls from above, each drop causing a sudden round clarity that slowly fades as…

  • Smoking Causes Coughing

    Smoking Causes Coughing

    ★★★

    Pas mal

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