Shyamalan shoots the hell out of this, it's suspenseful and spooky, everyone's good in it, and it's barely 95 minutes. Cinema.
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Fair Play 2023
Two tremendous performances in a very confidently directed movie that begs to be a thriller or at least productively thorny. Instead she's a fascinating machine allowed a ton of interiority and he's just a coward manbaby that fucking sucks in the most boring way. Bummer. This deserves to be a lot better and a lot scarier and a lot more confrontational.
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Skinamarink 2022
I really appreciate the swing here, it's gorgeous and the vibes are just terrific. But it's fucking boring, I'm so sorry. At an hour-forty I was just begging for it to do something, anything. Absolutely and admirably not like anything you're likely to find in a multiplex ever again, but I'd argue there's a really good reason for that.
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M3GAN 2022
Intermittently very funny, not remotely unpleasant or scary. You'll all get a few memes out of this before everyone forgets about it in two months.
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White Noise 2022
Possibly one of the most vaunted American literary satires reduced to a litany of soft targets and embarrassingly garish performances. I don't care if it's a big formal step for Baumbach, it's fucking corny and you all know it.
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