Narg
Bio: I have only recently begun to feel like I truly "understand" film and the saying that the more you know the more you know you don't know applies here. My ratings are purely based on personal enjoyment and I update and change them pretty liberally, so it's not super exact. . Generally if something is over 75 I think it's a certified banger, 75 to 50 is anything from pretty good to average, and anything below 50 ranges from below average to terrible. If you want to argue with me and call me a moron feel free to do so.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) - Rated 03 Jun 2024
"A little bit less visually compelling, a little bit less visceral, a little bit less clear in its stakes, and a lot less tightly constructed than Fury Road, which at this point has settled into its status as one of the greatest action films of all time. Some of those things aren't necessarily negative, but some of them are, especially in a follow up to something as iconic as Fury Road. To its credit, it is just as sneakily interesting in its themes, and the performances are all great."
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - Rated 31 Mar 2023
"Captures a lot of the fun of the game: going on adventures with a found family who help carry out your plans of suspect quality, a world that has room for both a bard who you like even as he tries to rob you and an immortal paladin who takes himself very seriously, and also all kinds of villainy from the backstabbing conman to the evil red wizard set on creating an army of the undead. Good fun."
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The Killer (2023) - Rated 11 Nov 2023
"When money and responsibility flow in a way that partitions culpability, who has to get their hands dirty, who knows what, and who makes the decisions, all the loose ends are going to be part of the "many". Assassins need a union so they can develop some class consciousness."
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) - Rated 08 Nov 2023
"About America's evil and greed in the same way as Wolf of Wall Street or any of Marty's gangster films; but here, as in The Irishman, there is no veil of intelligence or cool over the monsters. They are stupid and somewhat unknowable, so all we are left with is the cold reality of their actions. Beautiful, brutal, austere and complexly emotional."
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Hit Man (2024) - Rated 09 Jun 2024
"Every costume change Powell does to take on a different hitman persona had me cackling. Great performances, great chemistry, and in a Linklater film that goes down so smooth that you almost forget that the themes and the characters have a dark undercurrent that adds some complexity to the fun and breezy proceedings."
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The Boy and the Heron (2023) - Rated 08 Dec 2023
"Supremely my jam and stunningly beautiful. It is an examination of how to rebuild the soul in the aftermath of grief, where the supernatural is a representation of the inner world. The film is also just as much about the ending of things as it is about rebirth and renewal. A look at the mystical, the nonsensical, the apocalyptic, and the most excruciatingly powerful love that we contain inside ourselves. Miyazaki is and forever will be the man."
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Godzilla Minus One (2023) - Rated 26 Dec 2023
"Godzilla's return to Japan in Shin Godzilla was a return to his being more natural disaster than animal, only now as a reaction to the Fukishima Disaster and the bureacratic failings of the event instead of the bomb. Minus One goes even more directly to Godzilla's roots as a great remix of the 1954 original. Here the big lizard is not just a force against humanity but a force against one human in particular, with Godzilla being something akin to our main character's great white whale."
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) - Rated 14 Sep 2024
"Now this is the kind of dumb bullshit I can get behind. Instead of having completely awful character arcs for the puny humans, we have long stretches of the kaiju in essentially a silent film where we rely on their expressions and movement to tell the story. Then they fight and engage in hilarious WWE style shenanigans. The film knows what it is and revels in its complete unseriousness, which is much better than I can say for the last two Monsterverse films."
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Air (2023) - Rated 13 Nov 2023
"Well made, but unimportant. At one point Jason Bateman starts talking about his divorce and his daughter and how Damon's risky approach to the Jordan deal could cost him his job, and I was like "Oh, something that matters!" Then the movie forgets about that."
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Rebel Ridge (2024) - Rated 12 Sep 2024
"The film is restrained in several interesting ways while still giving you the violent comeuppance you want to see from a film with corrupt cops. Also, imagining this film with John Boyega instead of Aaron Pierre is impossible. Put Pierre in all the action movies, thank you."
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