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2.5/5
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Twisters
(2024)
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Tim Brayton
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It would be nice if the film gave us much of anything worth paying attention to between the setpieces.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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3/5
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Inside Out 2
(2024)
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Tim Brayton
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Mostly painless and often funny.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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4.5/5
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(2024)
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Tim Brayton
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One of the main ways that Furiosa is an unpredictable zig-zag for the Mad Max series is that it's actually much closer to a direct evolution from Miller's last film, 2022's Three Thousand Years of Longing.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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1/5
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Xanadu
(1980)
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Tim Brayton
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It is one of the dumbest movies of the 1980s, and one of the most joyful movies of the 1980s.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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3.5/5
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
(2006)
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Tim Brayton
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A movie that is much, much more nuts than it lets on.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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2/5
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Kung Fu Panda 4
(2024)
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Tim Brayton
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The series has finally produced its first lousy entry.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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3.5/5
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Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows
(1998)
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Tim Brayton
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To a certain extent, Paul Jay literally needed to do nothing at all but stand out of the way of reality while it crafted for him one of the most substantial character arcs I have ever heard of in any sports documentary.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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3.5/5
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
(2024)
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Tim Brayton
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There's a genuine sense of wonder here that is frankly not expected at all for the deeply pessimistic franchise it's a part of.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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2.5/5
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Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
(1987)
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Tim Brayton
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Despite all of its elements that are individually deranged and visionary and feel like they were wrenched out of the pitch-black recesses of some underground animator's brain, the thing as a whole feels like such yawning, uninspired hackwork.
Posted Apr 14, 2024
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4/5
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Tumbbad
(2018)
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Tim Brayton
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The film creeps into your bones and gives you a little shiver of discomfort at how very unknowable the world is.
Posted Apr 14, 2024
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2/5
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Madame Web
(2024)
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Tim Brayton
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The thing that's definitely true of Madame Web is that it was absolutely butchered, just hacked apart by a screaming maniac with a cleaver, in post-production.
Posted Apr 14, 2024
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3/5
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Tremors II: Aftershocks
(1996)
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Tim Brayton
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A whole lot more thoughtful than it had the slightest reason to be.
Posted Apr 14, 2024
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3.5/5
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Drive-Away Dolls
(2024)
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Tim Brayton
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It's easy to call this "just a lark", but it's not just a lark, really; it's rare and wonderful for a lark to be this self-assured and swaggering.
Posted Apr 14, 2024
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4/5
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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
(1953)
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Tim Brayton
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Lively and peculiar enough to feel like a worthy experiment in trying to make Seuss-style visuals work in live-action.
Posted Mar 09, 2024
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4/5
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Dune: Part Two
(2024)
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Tim Brayton
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Where it really comes into its own as a hugely satisfying Hollywood sci-fi epic is in the action-adventure material, which is also backloaded, so the very long film seems to keep getting bigger and richer as it goes along.
Posted Mar 09, 2024
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2/5
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Wonka
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Irritatingly free of the "pure imagination" that it presumes to be its most sacred value.
Posted Feb 20, 2024
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4.5/5
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The Zone of Interest
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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It works brilliantly, it's just that the thing it works brilliantly at is being an off-putting slog.
Posted Feb 20, 2024
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10/10
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
(1975)
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Tim Brayton
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A brilliantly ambiguous film about ambiguity.
Posted Dec 24, 2023
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4/5
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The Boy and the Heron
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Despite all of the heavy imagery, this is still a fundamentally generous depiction of a sad little kid who needs to learn that it's okay that other people want to love him.
Posted Dec 24, 2023
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4/5
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Godzilla Minus One
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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The technical quality of the effects is great. So, happily, is the artistic quality.
Posted Dec 16, 2023
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1.5/5
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Journey to Bethlehem
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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It's kind of hair-raising how just tacky this all is.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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1.5/5
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Wish
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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The animation is ugly, the story is confusing, the characters are an unappealing jumble of badly-expressed traits, the voice acting is meager, the songs are an affront.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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3.5/5
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Thanksgiving
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Performing the requisite duties of a slasher film with the most sincerity and highest level of quality it can manage.
Posted Nov 24, 2023
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3/5
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Trolls Band Together
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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The whole movie feels a bit like a laboratory for playing with new examples of the series' defined aesthetic.
Posted Nov 23, 2023
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3/5
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The Nun II
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Does not claim that its storytelling integrity is more important to it than providing a nice, rickety old thrill ride of bumps and shocks.
Posted Nov 14, 2023
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4.5/5
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Priscilla
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Tough, tough stuff, and Cailee Spaeny and Sofia Coppola make it look so inevitable.
Posted Nov 14, 2023
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1.5/5
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The Exorcist: Believer
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Congrats to the filmmaking team, I guess: they might have made some utter, contemptible trash, but at least it's not lazy trash.
Posted Nov 07, 2023
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3/5
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Saw X
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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The path that Saw X traveled to become the best-ever Saw movie was short, brightly-lit, well-marked and so obvious... make Tobin Bell the protagonist.
Posted Nov 07, 2023
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2/5
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Five Nights at Freddy's
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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It's all very tedious when it's not confusing, and it can't even count on atmosphere to salvage it.
Posted Nov 01, 2023
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3/5
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The Pope's Exorcist
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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No matter how much zany wackadoo nonsense you think it has flung at you, it still finds surprises and ways to remain fresh and unpredictable, quite literally up until the very last scene.
Posted Oct 28, 2023
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4/5
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Riki-Oh
(1991)
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Tim Brayton
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A great deal of the film's appeal lies in its unselfconscious childish enthusiasm, an unrelenting delight in doing cool, stupid stuff and doing it as hard as you possibly can
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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4/5
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Once Upon a Time in China
(1991)
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Tim Brayton
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As much a grave history lesson as a giddy celebration of its stunt team's physical prowess.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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5/5
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Koyaanisqatsi
(1982)
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Tim Brayton
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Crafting a way of seeing the world that is fresh and new.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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3/5
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Once Within a Time
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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It's taking one big swing after another, connecting often enough for to be exciting to watch more than its frustrating.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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3.5/5
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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This is very clear, effective, disciplined prestige filmmaking, enough to make this one of the toniest pieces of Oscarbait that I expect to see this year - but it is Oscarbait.
Posted Aug 09, 2023
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2/5
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The Two Jakes
(1990)
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Tim Brayton
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This simply isn't a very well-made thing, and it's not coming from any genuinely inspired place.
Posted Aug 09, 2023
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3/5
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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It's neat to look at, and it zips by with kinetic energy that nothing else starring these characters ever has.
Posted Aug 09, 2023
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4.5/5
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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As energetic as one dares to hope a popcorn movie might be, in love with the capacity of movies to provide every sort of visual delight.
Posted Jul 20, 2023
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1/5
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Insidious: The Red Door
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Takes the laziest of all routes, suggesting that what happened a decade ago shall happen again now in more or less exactly the same way.
Posted Jul 20, 2023
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5/5
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The Son of the White Mare
(1981)
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Tim Brayton
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Unbelievably dazzling and powerful, using these strong, almost abstract collections of colors and shapes that evoke primal, forceful emotion.
Posted Jul 20, 2023
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2/5
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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The whole opening of the film... is just a constant stream of sour notes.
Posted Jul 05, 2023
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3.5/5
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
(2001)
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Tim Brayton
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Taken on its own terms, this is a very impressive piece of animation and sci-fi worldbuilding, telling its gloomy story of a man-made end-times through some wonderfully expressive visuals and increasingly heavy atmosphere
Posted Jul 05, 2023
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3.5/5
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(1989)
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Tim Brayton
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An awfully good and deliciously watchable popcorn movie, made by probably the single most reliable director of popcorn movies in the history of American cinema, when he was still pretty close to the peak of his powers.
Posted Jul 05, 2023
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3.5/5
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Event Horizon
(1997)
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Tim Brayton
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Approaches some very silly third-tier post-Lovecraft nonsense with a enthusiastic desire to make it the most enjoyably trashy version of itself possible.
Posted Jun 29, 2023
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2.5/5
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Exists at the level of narrative sophistication of children idly mashing their toys together whilst making "pow, screech, aiieeeeeee" noises, which is sincerely better than any of the earlier movies were able to achieve.
Posted Jun 29, 2023
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4.5/5
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Asteroid City
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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Delightful, beautiful, phenomenally well-acted.
Posted Jun 29, 2023
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3.5/5
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You Hurt My Feelings
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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An indescribably pleasant vibe.
Posted Jun 22, 2023
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2.5/5
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Elemental
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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It is, not only for the incredible weakness of its central metaphor, the most unsound script that Pixar has ever turned into a feature film.
Posted Jun 22, 2023
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4.5/5
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
(2023)
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Tim Brayton
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An extravagant blend of styles and visual ideas and techniques that makes the bleeding-edge radicalism of the 2018 film seem downright boring.
Posted Jun 09, 2023
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4.5/5
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Local Hero
(1983)
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Tim Brayton
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It plays it as the mixture of British kitchen-sink realism and Robert Altman that I never knew I wanted.
Posted Jun 05, 2023
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