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four favorites may 2025: action epics
A movie that asks the question, what if Jim Carrey's The Cable Guy watched The Banshees of Inisherin and I Think You Should Leave at the same time?
A hilarious comedy that is tailor-made for people who exclusively love the work of Tim Robinson and cringe comedy that usually works as a 15-minute show. It's basically an I Think You Should Leave sketch stretched out into a movie-length feature and while this shouldn't work at all, it does, and having…
Oh, so that's why Mr. Milchick has a leather jacket and a motorcycle.
A mixed bag "finale" that feels like it spent so much time deliberately recapping and reminiscing the franchise rather than finishing the story it sets up in Dead Reckoning. This does have the unfortunate problem like a lot of franchises that had to split the last movie into parts where you don't really get the main course of the movie until halfway in. The constant quick flashes…
The most insane part about this movie is her being able to construct an elaborate secret room in one day.
Coralie Fargeat has done it again. This was an utterly fantastic body horror satire that takes you on a journey and a half about aging, the ugly side of celebrity, body dysmorphia, the cosmetic surgery industry, and being selfish and greedy to the point of despair.
This is basically David Cronenberg's entire filmography, Requiem for a Dream, and even John…
A film that once again answers what lies in the shadow and darkness of man a century later... real estate bureaucracy.
Someone play the All The Lights LeBron highlight reel meme for Eggers, he's done it yet again. A damn near perfect adaptation of the Nosferatu/Dracula story that is shaped by his vision and sensibilities. It is a film that is epic in scope, much like The Northman, but as personal and intimate as his other film The Witch with…