Though its cast, bloody R-violence, & mature themes engage, we’re exhausted by the [comprehensively-unoriginal] DC/Justice-League knockoff series within a paradigm of CBM-fatigue; here clichéd, mixedly-aestheticized, choppy tone. 5.2/10.
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Author: Cinema Lovers Club
Cry Macho (2021)
Though one of the greatest movie-stars and western presences of all-time, Cry Macho isn’t so much a swan song as retirement prayer; worthy themes lost in dust of deconstructed masculinity, cowboy-iconography, & early career projects. 5.2/10.
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Godzilla v. Kong (2021)
The epic kaiju showdown fans have been waiting generations for by magnitude of 21st-Century VFX/CGI, Godzilla v. Kong delivers on its promise jaw-dropping battle w. POC-diverse cast, lens prospectus, razor-thin storyline, & bad middle act. 7.1/10.
[category:science-fiction,date:2021-03-24,rate:7.1,type:movies]
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The Forever Purge (2021)
Though remixed western iconography, signature IP malevolence-pageantry, and potential rife themes of postapocalyptica twisting the rules of its franchise engage, TFP: poorly-realized, badly-acted, predictable, blunt mess of Bayesqueisms. 4.6/10.
[category:horror/dystopian/apocalyptica/western,date:2021-01-05,rate:4.6,type:movies]
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The Green Knight (2021)
A hypnotic, VFX-fueled epic of pure fantasy atmosphere, complex nature allegory, & bravura ocular craftsmanship w. a genius Dev Patel typecast, medieval necromancy, honor/religion/masculinity exposition, & modernize knights of round table. 9.6/10.
[category:actionadventure/fantasy/horror/drama/western/folk-movies,date:2021-08-30,rate:9.6,type:movies]
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Pig (2021)
A languishing, quiescent, rustic melancholic treatise on repose, natural friendships, chefs, materialism, & loss in the misanthropic Oregonian wilderness, Pig is a violent revenge-drama w. a soul and expo of Cage’s [still-formidable] acting talents. 8.7/10.
[category:drama/revengethriller,date:2021-07-03,rate:8.7,type:movies]
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Annette (2021)
Though its powerful iconographic fantasia of strikingly hyper-manicured Caraxian shots galvanize the eye, a hypnagogic rock-opera of experimentalism in purgatory ~drowning a godly cast of Driver & Cotillard-led indie finesse in minor-keys. 7.5/10.
[category:fantasy/comedyromance/experimental/drama/musicals,date:2021-08-02,rate:7.5,type:movies]
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