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Evil Dead Rise is a manic horror film worthy of the Evil Dead name. It’s very good and very gory. This is the fifth film in the Evil Dead series, but it stands on its own. You don’t need to have seen any of the previous films, the last one of which came out ten…… Continue reading Evil Dead Rise ⭐

John Paul Sartre defined bad faith, mauvaise foi, partly as the difference between the identity one projects to the world and what one actually is. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris exhibits this inauthenticity by including signifiers for the class struggle and the fight for self-determination when it is actually just a film where a nice…… Continue reading Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris ⚫

I feel like The Northman would be the favorite movie of Dethklok, the fictional metal band from Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse. The Northman is a Shakespearean epic that could come off deeply silly without a solid filmmaker’s vision (and a sufficient budget) to carry it. But Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) creates an other-worldly atmosphere…… Continue reading The Northman ⭐

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent doesn’t have the courage its own convictions, its central conviction being that Nicolas Cage is a thinly tethered whirlwind of transformational thespianism. It spends too much time allowing things to happen to Nicolas Cage and not enough time allowing Nicolas Cage to happen to everything else. Nicolas Cage plays…… Continue reading The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent ⚫

One of the worst sins a movie can commit is to introduce an inventive premise and then only follow through on the premise in the most ordinary ways, not displaying any further imagination. Everything Everywhere All At Once does the opposite, continually expanding and escalating the possibilities it explores. It keeps pulling the rug out…… Continue reading Everything Everywhere All At Once ⭐⭐

Ti West’s X is a slasher horror movie that wants you to know that it understands themes and camera placement and building dread, but isn’t gonna let any of that stuff get in the way of showing the audience a good time. X is about six people in 1979 who venture out of Houston to…… Continue reading X ⭐

Jordan Peele’s Us is an effective survival horror film. It’s creepy and tense with excellent action scenes, but also funny with empathetic characters. It also may have a message if you want to go digging for it. All that said, it’s not as engrossing or ground-breaking as Get Out, his previous film. It’s best to…… Continue reading Us ⭐