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  • Alien
  • Back to the Future
  • The Shining
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  • Creed III

    ★★★

  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie

    ★★★½

  • Sleepy Hollow

    ★★★★

  • Blade

    ★★★★

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  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie

    The Super Mario Bros. Movie

    ★★★½

    Delightful. Nintendo play it safe with this adaptation, but teaming up with Illumination (the creators of the Minions) for a Super Mario Bros. movie was the best decision they've made in a long time.

    In a colourful and breezy 90-minutes, this tells a simple story that takes pleasure in showing audiences all the Mario icons and hallmarks we've grown up with since the 1980s. It looks fantastic and I appreciated all the easter eggs, but also the way the music…

  • Sleepy Hollow

    Sleepy Hollow

    ★★★★

    My review for Frame Rated.

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  • Toni Erdmann

    Toni Erdmann

    Sorry, but this doesn't deserve the acclaim festooned upon it. 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, I see. Amazing.

    Toni Erdmann is a German drama miss-sold as a comedy (the lead actress even agrees), about an eccentric father with a love of disguises, who pays his estranged career-minded daughter a surprise visit and proceeds to cause her great embarrassment.

    Good idea. Funny idea. They're going to remake this with Kristen Wiig and Jack Nicholson. So someone clearly thinks it's a comedy in…

  • The Stylist

    The Stylist

    ★★

    I love the concept of a lonely female hairstylist who scalps women to wear their hair, as she can't fit in and wants to be someone else. It's a distaff Sweeney Todd with a bit Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs' identity issues, sort of.

    It's unusual to see a female serial killer, so I had a lot of goodwill towards The Stylist going in. The opening scene grabbed my attention, too, and I mostly enjoyed the performance of Najarra…