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Victoria Alexander
Tomatometer-approved critic
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Location:
Las Vegas, Nevada
Official Website:
http://www.filmsinreview.com
Movies reviews only
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Megalopolis (2024) |
It’s a hardship to watch. Itis all Coppola’s ego. He had the extra $120 million to do it. It’s a Fentanyl-laced LSD hallucination. The problem is Adam Driver – he did exactly what he was told to do. I do not like to be sermonized by multi-millionaires. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Sep 27, 2024
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Blink Twice (2024) |
A confident directorial debut by Kravitz but I’ll accept the wrath by saying the truth: why did Kravitz make every cast member intentionally ugly? So no one can take anything away from her star or her shadow presence as director? - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Sep 23, 2024
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Speak No Evil (2024) |
Terrific! This is the movie to see. McAvoy, you are September’s movie boyfriend. Director Watkins has the audience yelling and cleverly brings a sly homoerotic element that adds a gnarly subtext that infiltrates the carnage. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Sep 16, 2024
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) |
I’m looking forward to GONE WITH THE WIND 2, CITIZEN KANE 2 and SOME LIKE IT HOT starring Taylor Swift. But please no OCEAN’S 14. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Sep 07, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) |
I must urge the Academy Awards to make a new category: Best Performance by an Animal. This is a category that has been sadly ignored. There are a lot of working animals who deserve recognition for helping assist a star build their character. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Aug 30, 2024
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Alien: Romulus (2024) |
Were are the scientists of the franchise? A group of homeless, orphan teenagers are stuck on a hellhole planet’s colony. They decide to capture ROMULUS, an abandoned ship. Except for the charisma-free, faceless cast, it is a terrific movie. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Aug 25, 2024
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Twisters (2024) |
Zero charisma between Edgar-Jones and Powell. Edgar-Jones doesn’t even give Hollywood’s newest sexy heartthrob a look. Fragile Edgar-Jones single-handedly saves a town from disaster as limping Powell stays safe in a shelter. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) |
We all know the scandal but in today’s climate of P. Diddy and Chris D’Elia, C.K. never forced sex on anyone. Creepy yes, but walk away. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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Challengers (2024) |
It is an intense decades-long love affair between two men. Zendaya plays the strict, disapproving mommy keeping them apart. It’s so obvious, she acknowledges it several times. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Monkey Man (2024) |
Terrific. Has its own feel, look, texture and a bravado performance by the director/star. The India locale and theme is original with high, brutal action that makes Patel a serious contender in the John Wick genre.
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| Posted Apr 07, 2024
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Road House (2024) |
Bravo! McGregor makes an auspicious entrance. He’s a movie star now. Gyllenhaal displays a wry humor and a strong dominance as the “done that” bouncer. Gyllenhaal has found his buddy movie co-star. I have one constantly overused movie trope complaint. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Mar 27, 2024
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Dune: Part Two (2024) |
Yes, it is a gorgeous production but not a masterpiece. I’ll be brave and say it: Walken is a feeble lopsided emperor, Bardem is over-acting in his own movie and Bautista’s emotional decimal is higher than everyone else. Only Butler ignites the movie. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Priscilla (2023) |
Keeps the myth alive of a virgin and a hillbilly. Coppola has no insight. Maybe it was just a paid gig. It has no director’s vision, point of view, or interpretation. It’s a bore. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Dec 08, 2023
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Napoleon (2023) |
Napoleon was a weepy, masochist, a so-so general who was forced to be emperor. He loved only one woman and cried when he divorced her. He wanted Josephine instead of an heir for the Bonaparte dynasty. France will not forgive Ridley Scott for the insult. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Nov 27, 2023
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Poor Things (2023) |
Astonishing, breathtaking, a visual masterpiece. Bella transcends Barbie. She is the new female archetype. A sublime creature. Stone is miraculous! Ruffalo will never surpass this performance. All awards must go to this best picture of the last ten years. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Nov 13, 2023
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May December (2023) |
Terrific, riveting but ignores the fact that women can sense a teenage boy’s strong sexual pheromones and their flattering interest is an overwhelming narcotic. And this is why women are still being arrested for sex with teenage boys. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Nov 12, 2023
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The Killer (2023) |
Pure provocative tension. Nothing but stress-producing filmmaking. Fincher’s masterful triumphant is one of the year’s best films. No sign of pink, philosophical regrets, mean white men or a conflicted sex life. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Oct 28, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) |
Scorsese intentionally strips the film of any traces of his style. It appears that DiCaprio structured his performance to show his character suffered being evil. The film’s length should be praised instead of criticized. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Oct 14, 2023
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The Exorcist: Believer (2023) |
They threw out the playbook. The iconic original had one thing not easily achieved- MENACE. It was more important then the head spinning. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Oct 07, 2023
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) |
A perfect addition to the Dracula oeuvre. He’s at the top of the hierarchy of monsters and we wanted to see what happened on Dracula’s journey to London. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Aug 11, 2023
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Oppenheimer (2023) |
Finally, Robert Downey, Jr. dazzles. Matt Damon gives a strong performance. It is fascinating. I knew Dr. Edward Teller and he referenced the bombing of Hiroshima when replying to a question I asked him. See photo.
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| Posted Jul 21, 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) |
The most emotional of the franchise and tops itself while routed in reality. How are superheroes going to transcend this? - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jul 12, 2023
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) |
Ritchie did not have to put his name in the title of the strongest, most impressive film of his career. It’s a defining showcase that liberates him from his genre. It is Gyllenhaal’s most assured role. A highly realistic war film. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jun 25, 2023
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The Flash (2023) |
The first superhero with chest hair. Miller is terrific. The film is fun and good. What happened to Christian Bale, Val Kilmer and shamefully, why ignore the 21ST Century’s Superman, Henry Cavill?
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| Posted Jun 25, 2023
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The Stroll (2023) |
Brings a unique perspective to the transgender women of color who formed a “community” working “The Stroll.”
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| Posted Jun 25, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) |
A triumph of excess and brilliant artistry of weaponry. Sensational and who will top Wick’s high body count now? I want more and demand Wick fans to boycott all Reeves’s movies if he refuses to do Chapter 5,6,7 and 8.
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| Posted Mar 22, 2023
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Creed III (2023) |
I’m a big boxing fan and director Jordan delivers. He also gives Jonathan Majors a startling, overwhelming presence. Majors is the reason to see CREED lll. The fight scenes are amazing. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
A disastrous mess with the Ant population expanding. Even the family gardener has a suit which means Scott Lang’s role is reduced to carrying everybody’s luggage. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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The Umbrella Men (2022) |
A charming South African bank heist with a very appealing cast of characters. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Dec 21, 2022
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Pearl (2022) |
Redefines the genre showing that horror can happen in unlikely bright places. Mia Goth’s well deserved starring role. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Ticket to Paradise (2022) |
America can raise a sigh of relief: Clooney and Roberts are back as a bitchy divorced couple. Clooney is adorable and Roberts has the worst clothes a star has ever worn. Her archenemy dressed her. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Smile (2022) |
I watched the entire movie through my fingers. Starring Sosie Bacon her constant panic is operatic. She was terrifying in her out-of-control hysteria.
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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White Noise (2022) |
Sitting through this made me hate movies. Torturous. A movie just strolling through the isles of an A&P would have been better than this. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Bullet Train (2022) |
If he wants it, Pitt finally has his franchise. It’s ruthless, cleverly bloody and filled with David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde violent choreography. Mega-star Pitt lets co-star Taylor-Johnson display all the movie’s sex in an expensive suit. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Aug 13, 2022
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Nope (2022) |
Kaluuya is clinically depressed and his sister is annoying. Peele fails to bring to the UFO genre a satisfying story. A ridiculous ending. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jul 21, 2022
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) |
Thor has been emasculated and is a co-star in his movie. It’s rote work for Hemsworth. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jul 11, 2022
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Elvis (2022) |
Austin Butler is Baz Luhrmann’s Tulpa. Luhrmann conceived him and drapes him in a halo of devastating beauty. Butler can sing, dance and appears possessed in ecstasy by the soul of Elvis.
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| Posted Jun 28, 2022
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The Black Phone (2021) |
More psychological than knife hacking but the dark setting and that mask makes this a frightening initiation ritual for teen boys to overcome. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jun 25, 2022
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Crimes of the Future (2022) |
It made sense to me. We are living in a culture where beauty is manufactured and anyone can change their body into whatever they can afford. Radical mutilation is now celebrated as art as long as it is done in front of a paying audience. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Morbius (2022) |
With THE LITTLE THINGS and his sensational, transformation in HOUSE OF GUCCI, Leto is totally invested and gives the Marvel Universe a mesmerizing character shaped with conflicting appetites. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Apr 27, 2022
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) |
Nic Cage serves up a terrific movie. Cage sets the career procedural for pariahs Mel and Armie: Make a ton of VOD movies, student films and vanity movies that will never be released until something hits and its back to a theatrical movie release.
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| Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Deep Water (2022) |
Sensational erotic adult thriller about rich people toying with infidelity. de Armas captives with a provocative performance. Grace Jenkins upstages de Armas with a song.
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| Posted Mar 23, 2022
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Nightmare Alley (2021) |
Brilliant performance by Cooper. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Jan 15, 2022
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The Power of the Dog (2021) |
Brilliant! All Best Actor awards belong to Cumberbatch for this daring and unforgiving performance. Transcends acting into real life. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Nov 14, 2021
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Dune (2021) |
The messiah is a 14 year old scrawny boy. He's the prettiest ragdoll. Without Paul, Dune is a mesmerizing visual triumph. I worry about the sandworms. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Oct 29, 2021
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The Last Duel (2021) |
Scott's film is rightfully an epic given the stars and the vast production. Scott has chosen a story that challenges the current social climate of The Woke Army. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Oct 14, 2021
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Titane (2021) |
Provocative, daring, and fearlessly original. Ducournau emerges as a singular and strong director with a vision and a viewpoint. Bravo. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Oct 09, 2021
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No Time to Die (2021) |
The Woke Army has won. The masculine icon of a 60 year reign is over. An archetype who was desired by all who met him , male and female, is now monogamous and madly in love. He almost cries. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Oct 01, 2021
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) |
Chastain inhabits Tammy Faye. The brutal criticism of Tammy's appearance would be hailed as a brilliant "branding" strategy today. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Sep 20, 2021
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Free Guy (2021) |
Reynolds is terrific and an A-list actor nearly walks off with the movie. Dazzling effects and very clever. - FilmsInReview.com
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| Posted Aug 08, 2021
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