A hyperstylized, disorientative, vibrant TV murder-mystery that will leave pulp and black comedy fans on cloud-nine, TFA deftly-blends a mix of genres & career Kaley Cuoco performance to make a celebratory pronouncement of HBO Max now. 9/10.
[category:comedyromance/mystery,date:2020-07-01,rate:9,type:tvshows]
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Category: Mystery
The Haunting Of Bly Manor (2020)
A completely-different feel than HOHH with anthological cast, elegance in score, beautiful English Country Manor setting, rich storytelling & characterization, and traumatization/love-themed atmospherics, but politicization & few scares. 7.6/10.
[category:horror/comedyromance/mystery/periodhistorical,date:2020-09-02,rate:7.6,type:tvshows]
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Doctor Sleep (2019)
A bludgeoningly-dark, sumptuous slow-burn with new genre-icon in Rose The Hat, phenomenal McGregor lead, & seasoned Flanagan direction brimming w.EasterEggs & smart progressivism, D.S. worthily sequels the greatest horror movie ever. 8.5/10.
[category:horror/mystery/psychological,date:2020-10-02,rate:8.5,type:movies]
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Wandavision+ (2021)
The best MCU project & type of avant-garde innovation we’ve craved by Marvel for 10+ years beyond blockbuster formula, WV+: boldly-stylized CBM-mystery/sci-fi/ comedy/romance/horror/fntsy of ignis ftis, phantasmagoria, TV-nostalgia. 9.7/10.
[category:actionadventure/comic-book-movies-tv/experimental/mystery/psychological/science-fiction/time-travel,date:2021-01-02,rate:9.7,type:tvshows]
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The Lighthouse (2019)
An imagistic, disorientating swashbuckle of gothic saturation with machismo-exploratory themes, glorious black-and-white chiaroscuric visuals, and career performances by its sea-chanteying central Dafoe & Pattinson icon-duo. 8.7/10.
[category:horror/mystery/psychological,date:2019-11-02,rate:8.7,type:movies]
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Wonder Woman 1984
The perfect dosage of optimism for 2020, WW84 is a classic Golden-Age DC sequel out a time-capsule – epic ’80’s nostalgia, potency of emotion, diverse genre-mixes, valorous action scenes, allegorical complexity, darkly-characterized villains. 7.5/10.
[category:actionadventure/comic-book-movies-tv/mystery/periodhistorical,date:2020-06-05,rate:7.5,type:movies]
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Tenet (2020)
A cerebral evolution of the spy-thriller from the Da Vincian-imagination of Nolan, TENET is a time-distortion of remarkable metaphysical aspiration – w/a proficient JDW performance, chef d’oeuvre Zimmer-Göransson score, aciculate reparté. 9/10.
[category:drama/actionadventure/time-travel/spy-futurism/cyberpunk/film-noir/crime-films/experimental/mystery/science-fiction,date:2020-03-01,rate:9,type:movies]
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It: Chapter Two (2019)
Though darker in tone with perfect older Losers Club castings and inventive scare sequences, Chapter 2 is an hour-overlong, ill-paced, closure-less slog with messy plotting, an underwhelming finale, and insufficient Pennywise exposition. 4.2/10.
[category:horror/mystery/coming-of-age,date:2019-03-02,rate:4.2,type:movies]
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Midsommar (2019)
A masterclass of folk horror with some of most psychologically-disturbing macabre I’ve *ever* witnessed brilliantly juxtaposing a bright nature motif with fantasticism in daylit xenophobic bases. A visually-wondrous, auteurist rococo presage. 9.1/10.
[category:horror/folk-movies/mystery/psychological,date:2019-06-02,rate:9.1,type:movies]
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A prismatized odyssey of stars & events of galaxy/life history w. bold, complex, Da Vincian questions: ethos, mystery, origins, evol. of manknd, God, technology, nature ’01: pure sci-fi x IQ w. century-adv. A/V symphony; #2 Best Film Of All-Time. 10/10.
[category:all-time-favorites/science-fiction/mystery/experimental/classics,date:1968-12-20,rate:10,type:movies]
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