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Recent reviews

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  No One Will Save You 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Sep 2023

  "Conversation was invented by humans to conceal reality. We use it to sweet-talk our way around natural selection. You know who has real conversations? Ants. They talk by vomiting chemicals into each other's mouths. They get right down to brass tacks." - the TV series "Community"

  I almost don't want to spoil the most interesting thing about this home (alien-)invasion cat-and-mouse thriller starring Kaitlyn Dever and only Kaitlyn Dever. Like just write "It's predicated on a stylistic gimmick, come see…

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  The Expendables 2 2012

  ½ Added 5

  *review written in 2012*

  What the fuck, man, honestly. I watched this right after the "Total Recall" remake, not expecting either to be good at all but still willing to give them a chance, maybe on behalf of childhood fondness for the 1990 "Recall" and having grown up on a diet of '80s action (among others, I've seen all Arnold movies, "Die Hard"s, and "Lethal Weapon"s so many times that it's hard for me to objectively determine their value because…

Popular reviews

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  Green Room 2015

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Apr 2016 1

  Pragmatic!

  Is the best way to describe this scrappy, intense, black-comedy thriller from the rising master of scrappy, intense, black-comedy thrillers Jeremy Saulnier. Like his debut "Murder Party", this is a chamber piece, confining a young punk band to mostly one room of a neo-Nazi club they made the mistake of playing at, where they become sitting ducks after witnessing a murder. And close quarters suit Saulnier's modus operandi impeccably, as he once again tackles a succinct premise with an…

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  10 Cloverfield Lane 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2016 4

  Oooh yeah! One of those movies that reignites my love for the medium, not that it was flagging or anything, but this actually thrilled me physically and as a (formerly) prospective writer myself. I never wanted to be avant garde or anything – my dream was to write and/or make smart but accessible entertainment like this (and preferably in genre territory), so to see it pulled off so expertly every now and then in movies like "10 Cloverfield Lane" feels…