“Jam-packed with wonderfully foreboding cinematography, incredible sound design, and a mind-bending plotline that culminates in a truly electric finale, Cuckoo is certainly one of the most flat-out fun movies of the year.”
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“Longlegs knowingly wears its predecessors on its sleeve before taking a mind-bending sharp turn into something that the marketing has hidden exceptionally well. Perkins deliberately presents Longlegs as one thing before subverting it into something else entirely…”
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“As a character, Maxine surpasses Pearl’s dreams of grandeur tenfold as she becomes a true movie star. However, in an ironic twist of events, MaXXXine fails to surpass Pearl as a film, serving as a mildly unsatisfying conclusion to one of my favorite trilogies in recent memory.”
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“…it pains me to inform you that the newest entry, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, is a frivolous exercise in generic blockbuster affair.”
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“…not since The Lord of the Rings trilogy have we had a film saga of the magnitude and quality that Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has accomplished.”
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“…Love Lies Bleeding pulls no punches, figuratively and literally.”
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“In a Violent Nature, somehow manages to be inventive and tedious at the same time, creating an unfortunate tug-of-war between the film’s gruesome prowess and its monotony.”
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“…one can’t help but fall in love with the quirky originality in writer/director Caroline Lindy’s directorial debut".”
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“…Schoenbrun taps into Smith’s own queer identity and crafts a career-best performance from an actor whose career could only benefit from a change of pace.”
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“The last twenty minutes of this movie are what truly make it so special, and elevate it far beyond the traditional sports film or biopic.”
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“Despite faltering in some places, Napoleon is another monumental entry in an idiosyncratic filmography that could only belong to an auteur as skilled as Ridley Scott.”
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“I went into the film expecting a horror comedy only to not laugh once - not because of bad humor, but because the film takes itself way too seriously.”
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“…Despite feeling somewhat generic and being way too late to the 80s nostalgia of the 2010s, Totally Killer is an entertaining whodunnit/star vehicle"…”
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The transition from demon horror to a classic creature feature is seamless, and the design of the Pischacha is one of the most impeccably designed indie-horror monsters I have ever seen.
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“…Weston Razooli’s directorial debut, Riddle of Fire, is the best film from this year’s TIFF Midnight Madness lineup.”
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“Korine claims to have made the film to recreate a psychedelic experience but forgot that psychedelic experiences are supposed to be fun for those taking them.”
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“The film is an almost dizzying experience, like Hardcore Henry mixed with Cyberpunk: 2077, with a nasty cheese grater action sequence that outdoes the centerpiece of this year's Evil Dead Rise.”
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“Kill wears its influences from preceding action films like John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Enter The Dragon, and The Raid on its sleeve, but it manages to stay original and inventive.”
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“Beyond any shadow of a doubt, Mike Cheslik’s slapstick action comedy Hundreds of Beavers is the year's funniest movie.”
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