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Spleeny Dotson

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Escape From the 21st Century (2024) 4/5 EDIT “The earnestness of both the performances and Li’s exploration of lost childhood sell it far beyond mere dazzle and spectacle.” – Starburst Feb 28, 2025 Full Review A Samurai in Time (2024) 100% 3/5 EDIT “In the lead role, Yamaguchi is genuinely excellent, nuanced and heartbreakingly earnest (in keeping with the tone of the film).” – Starburst Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Penalty Loop (2024) 4/5 EDIT “There are no great reveals or twists to Penalty Loop, but through a lean and surprisingly straightforward story (considering its time loop premise), Araki creates a film that is funny, tender and merciful in all the ways that life often isn’t. ” – Starburst Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Creep Box (2023) 3/5 EDIT “... Don’t expect any jump scares or gore from Creep Box, a slow-paced film filled with silences and contemplations of empty spaces, which is more interested in the philosophy of consciousness and the afterlife than ghosts or monsters.” – Starburst Jan 23, 2025 Full Review We Are Zombies (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Fun but thin, We Are Zombies may leave you hungry for something more substantial, or with more braaaains.” – Starburst Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Crumb Catcher (2023) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Equally, flashes of sharp and taut direction are followed by long moments of nothing very much, leading to a rollercoaster ride where every jump can be seen coming, and every stomach lurch is followed by enough recovery time to forget all about it.” – Starburst Sep 6, 2024 Full Review The Vourdalak (2023) 96% 3/5 EDIT “Sparse, tense, and claustrophobic, if you can get past the spooky puppet, The Vourdalak is a solid addition to cinema’s eternally bulging vampire canon.” – Starburst Sep 6, 2024 Full Review Witch (2024) 2/5 EDIT “Witch is a folk horror with insufficient sense of place or community to be folk and too little in the way of jump scares or suspense to be horror, a vibe in desperate search of a genuine mythos or plot to tie it all together and sadly coming up short.” – Starburst Apr 29, 2024 Full Review Riddle Of Fire (2023) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Riddle of Fire will definitely deliver the fresh baked blueberry pie taste of nostalgia you need.” – Starburst Apr 25, 2024 Full Review Restore Point (2023) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Controlled, nuanced and tense, Restore Point is not what we expected but is an excellent take on cyberpunk from a middle-European perspective.” – Starburst Apr 22, 2024 Full Review Arcadian (2024) 78% 3/5 EDIT “In spite of the pivot, this is still a nice post-apocalypse to visit, but we definitely wouldn’t want to stay forever.” – Starburst Apr 22, 2024 Full Review 2/5 EDIT “Inheritance's central theme seems to be the unearthing of dark secrets beneath the perfect family but this image is undermined by the fact that even Lauren seems like a stroppy cow.” – Starburst Oct 26, 2020 Full Review Why Don't You Just Die! (2018) 97% 9/10 EDIT “The balance between humour, violence and tragedy could be queasy but Sokolov is an expert high wire artist of a director, always pulling the film back in another direction whenever it seems to be too much one thing.” – Starburst Nov 15, 2019 Full Review Extra Ordinary (2019) 98% 8/10 EDIT “Hilarious, warm-hearted and , as a celebration of ordinary people and their victory over the greedy, powerful and selfish (and diabolical forces of darkness), Extra Ordinary really is genuinely extraordinary.” – Starburst Nov 15, 2019 Full Review The Nightingale (2018) 87% 8/10 EDIT “In a way there are two films here, both potentially incredible, fighting for attention to the detriment of one another, so, while The Nightingale is a gruelling and masterfully shot film, it is sadly not the masterpiece we might have hoped for.” – Starburst Nov 15, 2019 Full Review Color Out of Space (2019) 86% 7/10 EDIT “This isn't the greatest Lovecraft adaptation ever, doing relatively little to capture the spirit of his work, but it is an entertaining rollercoaster ride through his story that leaves you feeling cheerfully spooked if not cosmically horrified.” – Starburst Nov 11, 2019 Full Review The Golden Glove (2019) 54% 6/10 EDIT “Jonas Dassler is disturbingly compelling as Honka, more disturbing for his making a shuffling nobody so magnetic.” – Starburst Nov 11, 2019 Full Review Synchronic (2019) 79% 6/10 EDIT “The chemistry between Dornan and Mackie is certainly good enough to sustain the buddy element of the film, although Dornan's character rapidly begins to feel somewhat superfluous to the plot as events go on.” – Starburst Nov 11, 2019 Full Review Tone-Deaf (2019) 42% 5/10 EDIT “Bates clearly wanted to make something more than a horror movie but, in his assessment of intergenerational conflict, he is ironically tone deaf.” – Starburst Oct 29, 2019 Full Review Playmobil: The Movie (2019) 18% 4/0 EDIT “By and large it feels like it's been written by people that don't really understand what made The Lego Movie work but who really want to make The Lego Movie without having to think too hard about it.” – Starburst Aug 21, 2019 Full Review
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