Neonman
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| 62 18% | In A Violent Nature (2024) - Rated 13 Nov 2024
"Okay, a fresh concept for a horror film, and one done with total adherence to it, complemented with technical choices coming from an austere art-house background. But it could've serviced a short film instead, so this is terribly padded out, and frankly, terribly boring (like watching someone play a third-person horror game, and this has video game-esque dialogue and vocal delivery). Some cool kills here and there in this lush production, and admittedly some emerging themes at the (boring) end."
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| 85 81% | Hard Truths (2024) - Rated 13 Nov 2024
"Absolutely hysterical for the first half, and viscerally and oppressively miserable for the second half. This makes sense, given it's a character study of someone who just cannot enjoy life, but Jean-Baptiste makes her character so utterly antagonistic, her rantings and ravings are so much fun to watch. Seems to stumble towards its ending without a grand concluding statement, but this still remains yet another quality slice of life flick from Mike Leigh."
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| 82 70% | Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) - Rated 13 Nov 2024
"A worthy continuation of the Joker character, and although it carries the same morose DNA, it's now lit with a newfound lightness and spark to both the film and character's life -- the musical scenes are just okay, but their inclusion makes a whole lot of sense for this film on a personal and aesthetic level. My complaints are that the courtroom scene, although peppered with a real funny performance by Phoenix, is reiterating the events of the first film, and the climax is a bit thin."
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| 71 41% | Match Point (2005) - Rated 13 Nov 2024
"Seems to take quite some time to get going with the conflict, and although it's fine to carefully establish these characters and the predicament our main man gets into, it's done very flavourlessly and lacking the usual wit and enjoyable to listen to dialogue of past Allen films. The second half is notably more entertaining and stirring in its musings on morality and luck, though feels like it's reiterating quite a few of the themes of Allen's own Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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| 63 20% | Alien: Romulus (2024) - Rated 14 Oct 2024
"Quite a nothing of a film. This just really goes through the motions in a unaffected way, and offers very little in terms of interest or freshness for this series, despite cramming something from all other previous entries into itself. Its lack of ambition means here's nothing too terrible going on here, but it reaches no heights either. Nice production design, at least -- I'm noticing that's often the only positive of many recent blockbusters."
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| 62 18% | Strange Darling (2023) - Rated 14 Oct 2024
"The only fun here is the nonlinear way it tells the story. But this experimentation with laying out the story and the twists that are revealed in this way seems to be the only reason for this film being made, as it's lacking anything thematically and emotionally resonating. The chase scenes are very standard, and the seducing scenes are padded out worse than in a porno. When the best scene in your thriller is of an old man making breakfast, you may've fucked up."
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| 84 78% | The Substance (2024) - Rated 14 Oct 2024
"Body horror is certainly back on the menu. Pacing is slow initially to carefully explain the body swapping method, which is still pretty silly and unrealistic, but all that is easy to go with when the film is so assured of itself as a commentary on the very exact LA manner of aging disgracefully. Second half shifts gears and gets more gruesome, with the gory moments referencing the likes of The Fly and Requiem for a Dream, before heading audaciously into a monstrous finale."
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| 76 53% | Another Day in Paradise (1998) - Rated 14 Oct 2024
"The plotting of all this comes across as very typical and disappointing, as it would benefit from a more free-spirited nature more akin to Clarke's oeuvre. But what makes this watchable are the captivating performances, from the reliable James Woods and the newcomer Vincent Kartheiser, who share perfect chemistry with each other that evolves throughout this story."
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| 82 70% | The Fugitive (1993) - Rated 14 Oct 2024
"Right from the get go, this is a highly pulpy thriller-action, with the right amount of ridiculousness in is very economic set up, placing Harrison Ford for the death penalty before the opening credits are even done. An absolute belter of an opening action set-piece is followed by a cat-and-mouse tale that's elevated by the actors and direction to ground all this somewhat, despite the twisty plot getting too turned towards the end with all its whacky (and very final chapters pulpy) conspiracies."
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| 68 32% | Asteroid City (2023) - Rated 30 Sep 2024
"The Wes Anderson appeal has now become a chore -- grand ensembles no longer support a main player, making none of the characters here feel either flesh out or truly connected. And fictional framing narratives have worked well in his other recent films, but here it's rendered useless. Despite getting tired of it, there's still an initial rush of enticement at the cartoonish element of the technical aesthetic."
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