I guess I’ll be the bad guy OH BROTHER, no denying there’s plenty to chew on here about mythmaking and fanaticism, progress and coexistence, having Noa be our proxy to reflect on this saga is a welcome perspective. The attempt to balance it all is plodding and distant though, stretching its runtime out to painful lengths, and I think I’m just a lost cause on how self serious these movies are. Even the jokes can’t pierce through the dour veil…
Reviews tagged ‘advance-screening’ by Sydney🚀 Patron
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Challengers 2024
Hey we saw you from across the tennis court and really dig your vibe, do you want to engage in a biblical level throuple over multiple decades
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Abigail 2024
It’s possible I just have a very short-lived appetite for the brand of horror that Radio Silence puts out, but this felt very conveyor belt to me compared to the witty, fully realized thrill ride of Ready or Not (they share a lot of similarities). Of course the premise is fun and makes for some pleasing moments of blood and guts, and the cast is easily the strongest element, but lots of jokes don’t work and I just can’t get…
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 2024
I will be first in line for a Guy Ritchie film until I die, but I haven’t felt that edge from him in a while and at this point it just feels like wasted potential. He approaches basically his Inglourious Basterds with a nonchalance we’ve seen before - they’re slicing through Nazis like butter, blowing shit up with reckless abandon, and somehow always getting away with it. It’s charming, but I’d be hard pressed to note a sequence in here that…
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The First Omen 2024
For all the talk about Immaculate being shocking, The First Omen kind of just showed them up with the freaky shit! There are definitely signs of some studio-influenced editing tomfoolery, which was to be expected from an addition to a franchise like this and can hobble the narrative at times. Sad, but Arkasha Stevenson’s direction shines through with a heavy assist from Nell Tiger Free’s star making performance. Real ones have known how great she is since Servant. Really gorgeous…
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Sting 2024
You know what… on one hand this was the clunky/generic stuff I expected, but on the other hand the whole end is trying to do Alien/Aliens and it doesn’t completely fail so I respect that. Not everyone will recognize your game, Sting (that name is a cool reference, too). None of the characters are all that likeable and it gets very tonally confused on its mission to B movie status, but at least there’s something going on here (read: clearly inspired by movies…
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I Like Movies 2022
“Can you make your face into another face” or “I just spent the whole day with your fucking interests”
Aww so good. Love when the main character is genuinely shitty and has to learn a little lesson. Don’t we all. This kid and the kid from Funny Pages (another great movie) would be the greatest crossover in history. A cinephile’s dream of references in here, they go see Punch Drunk Love!
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Late Night with the Devil 2023
Can confirm there is generative AI used in this, seems like a cutting corners post-production thing as it is only used in “we’ll be right back” transitional stills that appear maybe 3 or 4 times (the main logo might be too though?). Pretty disappointing that we are already seeing this happen, especially because the film is fun and stylistically neat otherwise. I don’t really get the huge reaction to it, but the approach to 70s late show nostalgia and satanic…
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Road House 2024
Take this rating with a grain of salt because I saw this on opening night at SXSW with an insanely hype crowd, but I was honestly pleasantly surprised by how self aware it is as a remake. Not taking itself too seriously was very necessary, but the action is also pretty decent (apparently there is some whack CGI but i wasn’t close enough to notice). End of the third act goes BIG and reminded me of Face/Off. Jake Gyllenhaal is…
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The Fall Guy 2024
I think I had a lot of fun watching The Fall Guy, which isn’t perfect but is guaranteed to be a smash hit with audiences. Even though the central romance isn’t the most believable, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt individually are rizz personified and blind you to the parts of this that are unnecessarily convoluted (I wish it committed to being a romcom set entirely on a movie set/about making movies instead of a halfway outlandish crime comedy with a…
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The Moogai 2024
Pretty generic folklore horror that is getting at some good stuff but commits the cardinal sin of being boring due to very underdeveloped characters/story threads. Probably should’ve stayed as a short film. Highly recommend Nanny or His House for some great folk horror flicks with similar structure!