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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
★★★ | Bit of an odd duck
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They Cloned Tyrone
★★★★★ | Attack of the clones
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Extraction 2
★ | Extraction 2: Audience 0
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Luther: The Fallen Sun
★★ | My sun, my sun, what have ye done?
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Glass Onion
★★★★★ | Chives out
Blonde
Blonde is an inexplicable, horrific misfire
There’s a special level of cinema hell reserved for films like this. Films that are equal parts malicious, ignorant, and cowardly. Those that claim the authority of biography, yet hide behind fiction when called out on their nonsense. In theory, Blonde is a fantasy portrait of a fictional Marilyn
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The Sandman is the best comic book adaptation ever made.
They’ve done it. I don’t know how, after all this time, but The Sandman is not just real, but quite possibly the best comic book adaptation ever made. After twenty years of false starts, terrible scripts, and other calamities, Neil Gaiman’s brilliant magnum opus lives on-screen as
Jason Bateman
Ozark Season 4: Part 2 sticks the landing
Considering everything the Byrd’s have gone through, calling it “running the gauntlet” feels like an apt metaphor. But I prefer the Finnish term for it. Kujanjuoksu. Literally, “running the alley.” It means the same thing, but paints a picture of tightening alleyways full of blind corners. Something where discomfort
Mark Ruffalo
The Adam Project is like Big, but with swearing
(The Adam Project premieres on Netflix Nordic on March 11th) I have to admit, when I saw the trailer for The Adam Project, I was less than impressed. Whatever decisions led to making it are all the wrong ones. Settling in for the review, I kept hoping my initial reaction
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre has run out of gas
It’s hard to imagine, but the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an almost bloodless film. Despite its gruesome reputation, including bans worldwide, it features almost no on-screen violence. All gore remains implied. The terror lurks just off the edge of the frame. Our mind fills in the rest.
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Space Force: Season 2 can't figure out what kind of comedy it wants to be
(Space Force Season 2 premieres on Netflix on February 18th) I really liked season one of Space Force. It’s not a perfect opener, and it certainly takes some really wrongheaded steps in its broad comedy, but it makes me laugh. That’s really all you can ask from something
Disenchantment
Disenchantment: Season 4 has more exposition than laughs
(Disenchantment premieres on Netflix today, February 9th.) I wish I could figure out where Disenchantment is going or what it wants to be. Now in its fourth season, Matt Groening’s latest still feels like it’s looking for a voice of its own. Picking up right where season 3
