The L1P

"It's a great, gorgeous and unnecessarily maligned piece of cinema. Far too many mistake a botched ending for a bad film. And that's sad."

My ★★★★ review of #AI #ArtificialIntelligence on @Letterboxd.

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"We should have turned this off. And we didn't. We saw it through. Even though everything we're seeing went against the fibre of our very being. We should ask ourselves why."

My ★★★★½ review of #Snowtown on @Letterboxd.

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"... This is actually a •very• 'noughties' Hong Kong actioner, with all the tacky and ugly sheen that comes with that."

My ★★ review of #SoClose on @Letterboxd.

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The trilogy MUST be completed...

"By the time one interviewee talks about sausages served for tea after learning the nature of the crimes you become tempted to google whether this is all real or whether you're watching a very good spoof."

My ★★★ review of #TheRev on @Letterboxd.

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You don't watch #Geostorm. You endure it.

My ★ review on @Letterboxd.

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"... It also has these long stretches of being quite dull and leaden. But by gosh, when it pops it works tremendously. Hence why it remains so beloved."

My ★★★½ review of #TheLegendOfHellHouse on @Letterboxd.

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It's "a hark back to the good old days of disciplined storytelling and lean compression where everything is contained within a tight 120 minutes instead of 6 episodes spread out weekly."

My ★★★★ review of #HaroldShipmanDoctorDeath on @Letterboxd.

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"It's such an awkward movie. You find yourself fighting to like it more than you should have to."

My ★★★ review of #SnackShack on @Letterboxd.

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"It seems to delight in finding very clever variations on lowest common denominator material, then imbuing them with subtle dollops of warmth."

My ★★★★ review of #TheYoungOffenders on @Letterboxd.

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"It's a very beautiful, pure-hearted, completely lovely, instant masterpiece. I adored it. It's a straight-out-the-gate all time favourite of mine."

My ★★★★★ review of #RobotDreams on @Letterboxd.

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"Every action sequence is kinetic, enthralling and completely consuming. It manages to make war look so ugly and terrifying one minute and so beautiful and exhilarating the next."

My ★★★★½ review of #SavingPrivateRyan on @Letterboxd.

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My ★★★ review of #ACaseOfDeadlyForce on @Letterboxd.

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"... The chemistry Adria Arjona and Powell generate together here is not just impressive, it makes for easily 60 - 70% of what makes this film brilliant."

My ★★★★ review of #HitMan on @Letterboxd.

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"... It's a beautiful looking movie, stuffed to the gills with crazy optic effects, unsettling music, effective shocks and some decent set-pieces..."

My ★★★½ review of #PlanetOfTheVampires on @Letterboxd.

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"... How the FUCK do you make something this utterly, utterly dull and hokey - full of cheap rubber old age masks, sneery inference and leaden dialogue?"

My ★★½ review of #JEdgar on @Letterboxd.

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"If unexceptional 'play the hits' slasher films are your 'thing' then this has you covered."

My ★★★ review of #Kristy on @Letterboxd.

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"It mostly holds its own as a basic, watchable drama but it loses itself both in the climax and its kind of trite and hacky final beat."

My ★★★ review of #Honour on @Letterboxd.

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"You'll come away from this with a very strong desire to find someone who will talk about you as lovely and as warmly as @TheFrankOzJam does about Henson here." 

My ★★★★ review of @RealRonHoward's #JimHensonIdeaMan on @Letterboxd.

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"It's an unsung little gem of a movie. Not a patch on the original but still a great time in its own right."

My ★★★★ review of #FrightNight on @Letterboxd.

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It's "hobbled straight-out-the-gate by the CRAZY decision to try and make Megyn Kelly •sympathetic•. Honestly, that's such a fatally misjudged decision the film can't recover from."

My ★★★ review of #Bombshell on @Letterboxd.

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"If you feel any inclination to watch this binge-watch THE KNIGHTS OF PROSPERITY instead."

My ★★½ review of #TowerHeist on @Letterboxd.

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"... We can't take our eyes off this horrible man. We're enthralled by him. So there's either something wrong with us or Robert Duvall is just that good."

My ★★★★ review of #TheGreatSantini on @Letterboxd.

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My ★★★½ review of #AshleyMadisonSexLiesAndScandal on @Letterboxd.

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"There's a little stupid gem that steals my heart every year and this year UNDER PARIS could well be that gem."

My ★★★★ review of #UnderParis on @Letterboxd.

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"DARK AGE stands for me as the most unsung, underrated and underappreciated creature feature / 'animal attack' movie of all time."

My ★★★★ review of #DarkAge on @Letterboxd.

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"No one shoots New York like [Scorsese], but no one captures the burnt-out / run-down / sleep-deprived / strung-out haze ground into a protagonist's eye sockets quite like him either."

My ★★★★ review of #BringingOutTheDead on @Letterboxd.

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"There's really interesting things at play here but the script doesn't seem to put anything forward that indicates an interest in exploring it." 

My ★★★ review of #ThePassenger on @Letterboxd.

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My ★★★★ review of the extended cut of #TheFallGuy on @Letterboxd - there's a reason why this thing is defying the 'death notice' its opening weekend unnecessarily stuck it with:

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"I'm totally unashamed to put forth that Gene Wilder's 'mens rea' bit remains first class •funny• shit, man!"

My ★★★½ review of #SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil on @Letterboxd.

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"... How do you make a Louisiana shark movie involving oil-riggers versus Jamaican gangsters starring Lou Diamond Phillips, right wing 'Buffy', fuckin Coolio and 'Principal Belding' that's so bloody boring?"

My ★½ review of #RedWater on @Letterboxd.

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"This is the most tuned in and connected Chan has appeared on screen and no one does this sort of heavy-duty, saccharine, feel-good dollop of medium-tier fluff quite like the Chinese."

My ★★★ review of #RideOn on @Letterboxd.

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"If the likes of Chris Pine or Chris Evans had been in this, we'd be talking about this as one of the great war pictures because it is a harrowing and enthralling experience handicapped by Eastwood..."

My ★★★★ review of #TheOutpost on @Letterboxd.

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"The Natalia Dyer, Sadie Sink or Maya Hawke version of this movie probably would've been tremendous!"

My ★½ review of #Damsel on @Letterboxd.

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"... This steps up in the year of the Godzilla franchise’s 70th year to take the position as its best entry [by a considerable distance] in its illustrious history."

My ★★★★★ review of #GodzillaMinusOne on @Letterboxd.

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"For a movie that literally tells us at the start that the world is in 'an unprecedented state of chaos', it's pretty bold to then roll out a film that shows anything else but that."

My ★★ review of #OmenIII #TheFinalConflict on @Letterboxd.

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"This is remarkably more decent then it has any right to be considering it is ostensibly the same movie as the first..."

My ★★★½ review of #Damien: #OmenII on @Letterboxd.

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"... It's Donner - accentuated by the scoring of Jerry Goldsmith - who totally nails this. It's a film of build, atmosphere and set-pieces and Donner gets that."

My ★★★★ review of #TheOmen on @Letterboxd.

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"It's a sports drama that's got more interest in being a character study and director Luca Guadagnino seems to love that..."

My ★★★★ review of #Challengers on @Letterboxd.

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"... As majestic on a technical level today as the day it was released. All these years on this remains a staggeringly inventive and entertaingly old school caper."

My ★★★★★ review of #WhoFramedRogerRabbit on @Letterboxd.

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"... If this had been a tight 85 - 90 minute pic, those couple of scenes might have carried it. But at two hours this thing plods at every point it should be running."

My ★★½ review of #TheFirstOmen on @Letterboxd.

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My ★★★★ review of #Brubaker on @Letterboxd.

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"... The finale is an absolutely sublime work of art - a truly audacious extended action sequence in animated form!"

My ★★★★½ review of #RobinHood on @Letterboxd.

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"I'd love to slam its inherent tackiness but I can't because I have to champion it for the excellent coverage it gives to predatory behaviour and grooming that many can draw easy education from."

My ★★★½ review of #Betrayal on @Letterboxd.

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"This made me laugh way more than I was expecting it to, given the heady mixture of standards in these 'tv specials' of late..."

My ★★★★ review of #SouthPark: #TheEndOfObesity on @Letterboxd.

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"... No one uses action as narrative like [Miller]. Also, no one thinks up this shit anywhere close to the way he does..."

My ★★★★ review of #Furiosa   : #AMadMaxSaga on @Letterboxd.

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"Will I take Ken Takakura wandering about, being sensitive but tough to little Asian boys doing 'blackface' and fucking shit up instead? ... Okay. I guess."

My ★★★½ review of #PrisonWallsOfAbashiri3 on @Letterboxd.

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