Kuroel
Bio: "Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established." - George Carlin
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| 55 36% | Brain Divided (2013) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"The woman seemed insane for giving the guy with the split personality a second chance until the end reveal."
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| 49 23% | Wyatt Earp (1994) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"This is a murkier retelling of the life of Wyatt Earp who wasn't necessarily the swashbuckler as painted in cartoons and afternoon shows. Rather Earp is painted as a philandering drunk with a broken heart. I cannot testify to the movie's historical accuracy one way or the other, but if you're looking for fun action, there isn't much sense of adventure and gunslinging here."
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| 30 5% | Anyone But You (2023) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"The leads are hot as fudge, and this has one of the best romance tropes – enemies to lovers. It's like spaghetti and meatballs, nothing Michelin level but that's not what you usually look for in comfort food. But the sauce is literal diarrhoea. For the life of me, I do not comprehend why this film felt the need to be as crass as it was. Who was this for?"
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| 40 11% | The Heartbreak Agency (2024) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"Tight-wound, judgemental and condescending woman falls in lust with a male journalist who is casually sexist and a flibbertigibbeting manslut. I'm all for character faults to ground them and make them more relatable, but there should also be the equally important part – what makes them likeable. Of course their underlying heartache which has caused them to shield their hearts with cynicism is eventually unveiled, but it's a sluggish journey until then."
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| 72 84% | Nothing Lasts Forever (2022) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"Nothing Lasts Forever exposes the diamond industry on things should be obvious but are not. Most know the ethical issues that stem from mining diamonds, but the document reveals that the demand on diamonds is just as artificial as diamonds will be in the future – lab grown and indistinguishable from naturally formed diamonds. And the diamond industry is not happy about that."
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| 57 41% | Next Goal Wins (2023) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"There's that nice "found family" charm in Next Goal Wins which was Waititi's personal passion project. There's a hefty amount of absurdist and subverting Waititi-humor but it's worn much of its novelty off after the director being very prolific following the release of Next Goal Wins."
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| 50 26% | Nimona (2023) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"The biggest fault of Nimona is that it was released in a very inopportune time. I'm completely done with LGBTQQIP2SAA themes. Main character is gay – fine. But the not-so-subtle trans allegory on top of everything else is overwhelming. I'm just as opposed to conservative propaganda. If there's a character that is deeply religious – fine. But when other far-right ideologies seep in (abortion, gun control, etc.) it becomes too much. I don't want politics in EVERY piece of entertainment."
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| 49 23% | Senior Year (2022) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"I'm not a big fan of movies where everyone is an asshole. Rebel Wilson is much more grating and foul than actors who have similarly portrayed child characters that have magically or otherwise transformed into adults (Tom Hanks, Jennifer Garner, Zachary Levi and Robin Williams). Wilson's character is missing the charming naivety and light-heartedness."
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| 55 36% | Secretary (2002) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"Secretary walked so that 50 Shades of Grey could run. If you're into a mentally unstable woman serving as a submissive to her equally, but in different flavor, mentally unstable dominant man, I guess this is your movie. Just without the porn."
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| 55 36% | In Love and Deep Water (2023) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"A ragtag ensemble of characters try to navigate their interwoven dynamics on a luxury cruise ship while a murderer is on the loose. With so much going on, there's stronger plot threats, but inevitable weaker ones as well, which is why at points the film feels bloated and meandering. The romance plot had one really nice scene but apart from that, I would not have been left missing it. The female protagonist was too wishy-washy and dislikable for my taste."
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