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The Minute You Wake up Dead, on the other hand, is too contrived, convoluted, and far-fetched even for noir standards. It can never truly engage the viewer because the inconsistencies are too many and too obvious to ignore, right from the very title.

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All things considered, even Ian McKellen in all his faux Nazi trappings is no more threatening than Laurence Olivier in tights.

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Benedetta does a good job of establishing the title character’s Gordian knot of a sexuality. The problem is that the film barely scratches beyond the surface.

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Polytechnique was the Canadian answer to Elephant. The latter was released six years earlier, but the incident that inspired the former preceded by ten years the similar event that triggered Gus Van Sant’s drama. Chronology aside, though, both films remain sadly relevant today.

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This pseudocumentary begins with archival footage, including Ronald Reagan saying, “there is nothing intelligent, there is nothing adult or sophisticated about taking LSD;” the next 85 minutes are devoted to proving him right.

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The Duel is the kind of western that brings a knife to a gunfight. We’re expecting a showdown at high noon, not whatever the hell a “Helena duel” is.

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. No good deed goes unpunished. The end doesn’t justify the means. These are all platitudes that superficially apply to The Pledge, but the truth is that this film transcends clichés.

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I kept waiting for a miniature Stonehenge monument to appear so that Cyrano could dance around it.

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QT8: The First Eight is the wrong title for this pseudocumentary/hagiography of Quentin Tarantino. A more accurate title would be The First Three That Actually Matter and the Six (counting Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) Bloated, Masturbatory, Overrated Ego Trips that Followed.

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Coming 2 America has at least one thing in common with 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Odd Couple II, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Expendables 3, and The Irishman. This is not good company.

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All things considered, there are only two kinds of people who say yes to everything: sycophants and idiots, and something tells me both kinds were involved in the making of this movie.

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The filmmakers remain at all times oddly incurious regarding Michael’s actions (or lack thereof); it’s as if they have themselves grown weary of the character, relegating him to the background and in the process officially turning Halloween Ends into the Blade: Trinity of this franchise.

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According to this movie, “There’s nothing in the world an Alaskan Husky loves more than pulling.” I find that extremely hard to believe. I mean, claiming that dogs love pulling increasing weight across a certain distance for the entertainment of easily amused humans is like saying that orcas fucking love SeaWorld.
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Buck, the main dog in The Call of the Wild, appears to be a cross between Beethoven and Roger Rabbit. Like the former, Buck destroys or eats everything in his path, and like the latter, it’s painfully clear that the human actors are interacting with an animated character — the difference being that Roger Rabbit is actually supposed to be a cartoon.

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My theory is that the makers were going for a circa early-to-mid 70s Woody Allen-style film; Sleeper and Love & Death come to mind. The problem is that Allen himself stopped making that kind of movie about half a century ago.

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The Prince (original title: El Príncipe), although a depressingly dark portrait of life in prison, is not, comparatively, as brutal as Papillon or Midnight Express, but does lack the glimmer of hope that shines at the end of those two films.

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Edmond is an utterly vile and despicable being, concerned exclusively with sex and money — specifically how much of the latter he’s willing to part with in exchange for the former (Macy’s casting is crucial; we respond to his trademark endearing quirkiness well beyond the point where it has become obvious that this man is the scum of the Earth).

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Unlike this year's installment, 2022's Scream was made with knowledge of and respect for its genre, and didn't underestimate the audience’s intelligence.

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I love it when Future Space People smoke plain old cigarettes. It may not be scientifically sound, but it makes a heck of a lot of sense. Cigarettes are not just cigarettes; they symbolize the characters’ ennui.
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The hero has doubtless watched 500 Days of Summer and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and knows he has no choice but to fall in love with the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

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