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Reviews tagged ‘with-friends’ by Sydney🚀 Patron
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024
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…
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Godzilla vs. Kong 2021
What the fuck😭
I’m actually laughing. The slow-mo. The real recognizing real. The POV shots. The unnecessary side plots. Love Kong so much. Not rateable -
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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Civil War 2024
The good news is that Civil War is not the heavy-handed right vs. left eye roller that the trailers might have made it seem like. Actually, Garland has almost completely abstained from political specifics and instead made a Heart of Darkness-type road trip film through the lens of war photographers as they travel from New York to DC in a war-torn America. I love this idea and the conversation about the impact of an image, desensitization, to what lengths the…
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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!
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Immaculate 2024
Andrew Lobel’s heart is in the right place with his script for Immaculate, a bold take on nunsploitation tropes with strong performances and endlessly gorgeous cinematography/production design. That said, I had heard rumors about the subject matter that got me excited for all the ways it could be explored, and I left almost completely unsatisfied. I think such a literal approach demands a lot more than what we see in the end result. Still, it functions well at times as a vehicle for Sydney Sweeney and a popcorn horror flick with a pretty cool ending. Sure!
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Monkey Man 2024
There was action before Dev Patel and now there is action after Dev Patel. We asked him to save us so many times that he did that and completely reinvigorated the genre in the process - every moment of this explodes with the ferocity of someone with limitless passion and nothing to lose. Some will feel conflicted over the messy, guerilla-style approach to some of the visuals and narrative beats (Covid complications leading to iPhone footage, cameras swinging from ropes…
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Azrael 2024
A devilish and delicious mix of post-apocalyptic biblical horror and action, it felt miraculous that it was pulled off until I realized Simon Barrett came up with it! It’s also tough to sell a film without dialogue, unless you have someone as charismatic and expressive as Samara Weaving as your leading woman. Then you don’t even notice the lack. This kicked a lot of ass.