5/5
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Chungking Express
(1994)
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Tim Brayton
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One of the greatest treasures of 1990s filmmaking.
Posted Mar 30, 2023
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3/5
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Creed III
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Better than the second <i>Creed</i>, worst than the first, and that's pretty much the best-case scenario it was worth hoping for.
Posted Mar 27, 2023
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2.5/5
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Cocaine Bear
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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It would benefit from being a lot more silly, a lot more of the time.
Posted Mar 18, 2023
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3.5/5
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Living
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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The particulars of this story are superbly well-suited to the culture and social conditions of England in the wake of the Second World War.
Posted Mar 10, 2023
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1.5/5
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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I cannot imagine ranking it anywhere other than dead last out of the 31 features presently constituting the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Posted Mar 04, 2023
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3/5
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The Quiet Girl
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Unstintingly delicate.
Posted Feb 27, 2023
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5/5
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Rear Window
(1954)
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Tim Brayton
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Some of the most immaculate filmmaking in Hitchcock's career, which by default makes it some of the most immaculate filmmaking in the history of the medium.
Posted Feb 27, 2023
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4.5/5
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INU-OH
(2021)
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Tim Brayton
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If this is where Yuasa intends to leave us for a while, he's done so with the best possible reminder of what a remarkable talent he takes with him.
Posted Feb 27, 2023
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3.5/5
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Saint Omer
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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There are both a good idea for a movie and a great idea for a movie tangled up right next to each other.
Posted Feb 11, 2023
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2.5/5
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The Whale
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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The kind of film that does not work in a way that only a very fearless and bold Artist-with-a-capital-A could manage to make it not work.
Posted Feb 07, 2023
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5/10
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Last Year at Marienbad
(1961)
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Tim Brayton
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It's extraordinary how nothing feels out of place, how well it seems to extract a form of artistic meaning from its meaninglessness.
Posted Feb 06, 2023
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4/5
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The Woman King
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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A wildly watchable and compelling movie, one of 2022's best popcorn films.
Posted Feb 03, 2023
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4/5
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Babylon
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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A prurient, celebratory, confused, scandalized, and sad celebration of the notion of Old Hollywood as a place of incomparable possibility and freedom.
Posted Jan 24, 2023
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3/5
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M3GAN
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Quite watchable and fun.
Posted Jan 18, 2023
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3/5
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The Menu
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Pretty enjoyable on its own terms, and as long as you don't need it to be too precise in its satiric aims.
Posted Jan 10, 2023
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2.5/5
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Hauls itself up to a bleary-eyed 139-minute running time to cover about 85 minutes worth of story.
Posted Dec 31, 2022
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4/5
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Tokyo Godfathers
(2003)
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Tim Brayton
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Grotty, unpolished, but lovable humanity.
Posted Dec 28, 2022
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3/5
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Broker
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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It all averages out to a sort of pre-chewed quality, a feeling that we've been here and seen this done considerably better, by Kore-eda and others.
Posted Dec 28, 2022
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3/5
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Women Talking
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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It at least manages to get some pretty terrific performances out of its cast.
Posted Dec 24, 2022
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2/5
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Spirited
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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A horrifically bloated 127 minutes.
Posted Dec 24, 2022
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4.5/5
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Ruggles of Red Gap
(1935)
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Tim Brayton
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One of the great hidden gems of 1930s American cinema.
Posted Dec 23, 2022
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4/5
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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The boldest, coolest, most radical use of the medium of any major-studio feature outside of <i>Into the Spider-Verse</i>.
Posted Dec 23, 2022
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4.5/5
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Avatar: The Way of Water
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Shamelessly corny and blunt and earnest and wildly exciting.
Posted Dec 20, 2022
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3.5/5
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Bones and All
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Captures a lot of the particular qualities of the central part of the U.S., both the warm beauty of golden hour light on wheat fields and failing small towns, and the tiresome, lonely isolation and dustiness that blankets most of the Midwest.
Posted Dec 13, 2022
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3/5
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She Said
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Once the film gets going, Maria Schrader's directing really starts to sharpen up and create some brilliant moments.
Posted Dec 12, 2022
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3/5
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Violent Night
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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It has a ton of heart, even when that heart is being pounded into mincemeat by a sledgehammer.
Posted Dec 08, 2022
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2.5/5
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Strange World
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Being mad at this would require that it had made some actual choices with actual stakes to them.
Posted Dec 05, 2022
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4.5/5
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The Fabelmans
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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In a very literal way, this is the movie that Steven Spielberg was born to make.
Posted Dec 03, 2022
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4/5
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Clearly the year's best <i>Pinocchio</i>, a low bar; it is moreover one of the year's best films generally.
Posted Nov 27, 2022
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2/5
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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You can still see the bones of the original concept, poking jaggedly through the flesh of the story, and meshing not at all with the new material about grieving and coming to grips with loss.
Posted Nov 21, 2022
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4/5
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The Banshees of Inisherin
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Gives the impression of understanding every element of these characters and their staid, insular culture of about two dozen human souls at a molecular level.
Posted Nov 19, 2022
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3/5
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All Quiet on the Western Front
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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The narrative is strong enough that it would take a weaker treatment than this to ruin it, and the heavy one-note bleakness is a reasonable attitude to adopt given the material.
Posted Nov 15, 2022
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4/5
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Armageddon Time
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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At times deeply humane despite its cynicism.
Posted Nov 10, 2022
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3.5/5
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Wendell & Wild
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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boundlessly creative, but it's also overstuffed and dizzying.
Posted Nov 05, 2022
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1/5
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Prey for the Devil
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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It feels like a movie that was built to come out in the dead zone of winter.
Posted Nov 02, 2022
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3.5/5
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Tár
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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A polished, handsome, and incredibly thoughtful piece of filmmaking.
Posted Oct 31, 2022
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2/5
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Ticket to Paradise
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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This appalling lack of sparkle between two of our last Movie Stars... is pretty much a fatal strike for a movie that really never does much of anything to bring itself to life.
Posted Oct 27, 2022
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2/5
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Black Adam
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Clomps through its boilerplate-but-also-convoluted story with stone-faced determination, checking boxes right and left.
Posted Oct 25, 2022
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3/5
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Night on Earth
(1992)
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Tim Brayton
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Jarmusch at his most curious about humans but also his most sedate as a filmmaker.
Posted Oct 24, 2022
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3/5
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Dark Glasses
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Less interesting for anything it does or doesn't do in and of itself, than because one of the titans of the genre has decided to use his waning remaining years to run through a fairly straightforward little murder mystery.
Posted Oct 24, 2022
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2.5/5
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Alarmingly free of narrative structure.
Posted Oct 20, 2022
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1/5
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Halloween Ends
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Benefits in no way to being compared to any of the films preceding it.
Posted Oct 18, 2022
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2.5/5
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Hellraiser
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Loses all of its focus and all of its momentum during a brutally long and languid middle.
Posted Oct 12, 2022
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3/5
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The Munsters
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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It is earnest and adorable and the idea of embarrassment is completely foreign to it.
Posted Oct 07, 2022
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3.5/5
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Smile
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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It gets a suitable amount of mileage from the uncanny creepy-crawliness promised by the title: people smiling when those people oughtn't be smiling is just freaky.
Posted Oct 01, 2022
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2.5/5
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The Ghost and the Darkness
(1996)
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Tim Brayton
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The film has a core competency - being a meat-and-potatoes thriller about killer lions - and as such, it's kind of frustrating how much time it spends not doing that.
Posted Sep 29, 2022
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2/5
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Don't Worry Darling
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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Has an extraordinarily hard time keeping any of its many ideas straight, or developing any of them to any real degree.
Posted Sep 29, 2022
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3.5/5
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Big
(1988)
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Tim Brayton
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It remains one of the most technically thoughtful and precisely-controlled performances of [Tom Hanks's] entire career.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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2.5/5
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Psycho IV: The Beginning
(1990)
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Tim Brayton
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This should be complete garbage; instead, it is not a very good movie. But it's still sort of interesting and mostly worth watching.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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3.5/5
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Pearl
(2022)
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Tim Brayton
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This is, above all things, Mia Goth's movie... it is wonderful character work, and worthy of having a film built around it.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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