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| 40 40% | Trap (2024) - Rated 16 Nov 2024
"Trap is another mind-bender from Shyamalan for all the wrong reasons. It starts as borderline self-parody than becomes borderline nepotism and ends borderline actual good movie before wrapping back to borderline self-parody. It's genuinely hard to tell if this movie is stupid or genius because it walks that tightrope with almost preternatural ease."
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| 14 7% | Jingle All the Way (1996) - Rated 11 Nov 2024
"Jingle All the Way almost feels like it's a satire of CorporateChristmas(TM) but that could just be because it's so inept it doesn't realize how bleak and disgusting it is. Among rapey Phil Hartman, unfunny Sinbad, Arnold attempting to (and later succeeding in) stealing from children, bad effects, Jake Lloyd, and TERBOWMANN there is nothing to like here."
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| 10 5% | Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) - Rated 03 Nov 2024
"The first ten minutes or so are such a welcome subversion. The next 80 are unwelcome and incredibly weak Friday the 13th crap remixed with Jason as a slug-worm monster. Am I even mad at this point? No. It's just sad crap yet I'm sticking with my plan to finish these."
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| 16 10% | Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) - Rated 03 Nov 2024
"I feel like my brain is melting."
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| 15 9% | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) - Rated 03 Nov 2024
"A New Beginning is at least an accurate title. It feels halfway between an avant-garde Friday the 13th sequel and a sleazy exploitation movie. It is just terrible but it's brand of terribleness is at least unique to this franchise and often had me wondering about directorial decisions. That sounds like damning with faint praise but these movies all blend together so much that something completely different is welcome."
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| 20 14% | Friday the 13th Part III (1982) - Rated 03 Nov 2024
"Oh boy it's three movies in and we are already well out of ideas. The (lack of) 3D was extremely distracting and, even though we've finally got the hockey mask, everything feels so played out and I know that there's 7 more to go."
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| 25 21% | Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) - Rated 03 Nov 2024
"Negatives: Jason still doesn't have the hockey mask. Positives: Alice does a thing. Yay Part II!."
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| 75 80% | Late Night with the Devil (2023) - Rated 02 Nov 2024
"While it isn't seamless or without some eye-rolling moments (the worst is the bad CGI), Late Night with the Devil is great at combining 70's era light night aesthetics with paranormal horror which fits right in with Satanic Panic. David Dastmalchian, previously known as "that guy who shows up in everything Villeneuve directs", puts in a good performance in the lead and the script kept me on my toes until the very end."
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| 75 80% | Pearl (2022) - Rated 01 Nov 2024
"I already seemed to be higher on X than most but Pearl really is just another step up. It's like The Wizard of Oz but Dorothy never escapes Kansas. Oh an she's a psychopath but still somehow sympathetic. That Mia Goth is a special talent and, if she wants, could go on to do much bigger things because she carries this film even more so than X."
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| 71 75% | X (2022) - Rated 30 Oct 2024
"More than just a slasher movie done well, X deftly mixes elements of 70's exploitation, clever meta-commentary, and some genuinely interesting commentary on youth, broken dreams, and sexuality. Mia Goth is the standout but everyone involved is also excellent."
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