Tag: 2024
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Alien: Romulus
4 outta 5 Alien: Romulus is a crackerjack entry in the Alien franchise that flips between knowing homages, splicing in bits of continuity, flat-out ripping off others and repeating some bits exactly. It can be sort of a “greatest hits” version of a few Alien movies all combined into one, and its willingness to take…
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Borderlands
2 outta 5 Borderlands is a movie that isn’t as much fun as it tries to be. There is some fun stuff in here, like a lead performance that is a lot more enjoyable than others in the role would be. But there is also a heck of a lot of unneeded lore and plot…
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Young Woman and the Sea
4 outta 5 Young Woman and the Sea is a stirring sports drama that is inspired by the true story of a woman from 100 years ago who swam the English Channel, a feat that was an incredible display of athletic endurance. The film is affably performed and features impressive swimming scenes as the audience…
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Deadpool and Wolverine
5 outta 5 Deadpool and Wolverine is the third Deadpool starring film but due to corporate buyouts and expanding cinematic universes, it sort of becomes a quasi-sequel to multiple film and TV series, integrating into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe storyline. It is a lot, but it is never overbearing, as the story really focuses…
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Twisters
3 outta 5 Twisters is the few decades later sequel to 1996’s Twister that at least manages keep in the same tone of the original. There are specific beats ripped from there: interpersonal melodrama and flirting, an opening traumatic tornado to establish the main character’s fear of storms, competing storm chasers (one cool and indie…
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Kinds of Kindness
4 outta 5 Kinds of Kindness is an incredibly strange movie from Yorgos Lanthimos, a director who already trafficked in strange movies (Poor Things, The Lobster), and this is even stranger than usual. It is an anthology film of three separate stories with the same actors playing different characters. There is a running theme about…
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
4 outta 5 Comedy legacy sequels that come out decades after the original, are often dicey propositions as comedy sequels are hard to nail down what clicks from the original. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is the 4th Beverly Hills Cop movie arriving 30 years after the not great Beverly Hills Cop III from 1994.…
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A Quiet Place: Day One
4 outta 5 A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel to the two Quiet Place films that fits into the series even if it doesn’t do much different. As the original film established the rules, if you make a peep you get killed by aliens, the series really only can expand ways to do…
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Trigger Warning
3 outta 5 As far as unhelpful titles go, Trigger Warning is kind of up there because it seems like a parody title. Instead, this is a fairly straightforward action flick. Also, there is a lot of (rather well done) knife battling in this film but inserting the word “trigger” in the title makes it…
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Inside Out 2
4 outta 5 Inside Out 2 is a solid sequel to a fantastic film that may not quite live up to its predecessor, and at some points just seems to be retreading the same ground, but still has fun and emotional bits throughout. Adding new emotions creates a different dynamic, although having the controlling emotions…
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