It's so fucking funny. I don't want to interact with anyone who doesn't lose their fucking shit in the theater watching this.
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2016
This movie is so painfully inert for easily 50% of runtime. Unbelievable that Refn was considered washed making Only God Forgives only for his star to have regained ascendancy after this. Elle Fanning doesn't convincingly play the underage doe walking into a slaughter nor does she convince during her brief heel turn after tasting a modicum of success. Keanu Reeves struggles to portray a tenth of the disgusting slobbering rapist gaze and attitude that he's tasked with only to bafflingly…
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2016
This movie is so painfully inert for easily 50% of runtime. Unbelievable that Refn was considered washed making Only God Forgives only for his star to have regained ascendancy after this. Elle Fanning doesn't convincingly play the underage doe walking into a slaughter nor does she convince during her brief heel turn after tasting a modicum of success. Keanu Reeves struggles to portray a tenth of the disgusting slobbering rapist gaze and attitude that he's tasked with only to bafflingly…
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1985
Better on rewatch when you can let the sleazy sunbaked neo-noir vibes take over and just lead you through a flawed but fantastic journey across LA. William Petersen and John Pankow play adrenaline junkie meets legacy moral com about as well as they need to without ever capturing anything prolific. Dean Stockwell plays a slimy 80s LA powerhouse attorney to perfection and young Willem Dafoe is so distractingly handsome in this movie that it almost becomes comical. There's also this…
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2024
There's something very hypnotic and relaxing about a late era Cronenberg. On a sheer technical level The Shrouds is nearly perfect in exhibiting the trappings of an upper crust lifestyle for the anesthetizing facade they are. Vincent Cassel explores the psyche of a widower who, after finding himself reborn in the intimacy and physical beauty of his late wife (Diane Kruger, in a two part role), now struggles to envision a life without full access to her body. Drawing from…
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1985
Better on rewatch when you can let the sleazy sunbaked neo-noir vibes take over and just lead you through a flawed but fantastic journey across LA. William Petersen and John Pankow play adrenaline junkie meets legacy moral com about as well as they need to without ever capturing anything prolific. Dean Stockwell plays a slimy 80s LA powerhouse attorney to perfection and young Willem Dafoe is so distractingly handsome in this movie that it almost becomes comical. There's also this…
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2024
There's something very hypnotic and relaxing about a late era Cronenberg. On a sheer technical level The Shrouds is nearly perfect in exhibiting the trappings of an upper crust lifestyle for the anesthetizing facade they are. Vincent Cassel explores the psyche of a widower who, after finding himself reborn in the intimacy and physical beauty of his late wife (Diane Kruger, in a two part role), now struggles to envision a life without full access to her body. Drawing from…
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