My Top 4 are just the last four movies I rated five stars. My actual favourite movie of all time is Persona.
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2013
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The biggest nosedive in movie history?
Great first and second acts give way to an ending reveal so phenomenally stupid and clashing with the serious tone that it pretty much cancels out all of the great filmmaking.
Hugh Jackman spends half the movie torturing a disabled man because his gut tells him that he knows where his daughter is. And guess what? His gut was right. Great. Just wonderful. Obviously the movie doesn't endorse his actions and portrays Alex as a victim, but even then I think this subplot was handled devastatingly poorly.
I just can't believe how badly this movie ended.
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2013
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The biggest nosedive in movie history?
Great first and second acts give way to an ending reveal so phenomenally stupid and clashing with the serious tone that it pretty much cancels out all of the great filmmaking.
Hugh Jackman spends half the movie torturing a disabled man because his gut tells him that he knows where his daughter is. And guess what? His gut was right. Great. Just wonderful. Obviously the movie doesn't endorse his actions and portrays Alex as a victim, but even then I think this subplot was handled devastatingly poorly.
I just can't believe how badly this movie ended.
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2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Ah yes, the accomplice must have been somebody that all the families would trust without question, somebody beyond suspicion. Who wouldn't trust a creepy nun delivering a detailed doll replica of their child?
Osgood Perkins seems like a reasonably promising director, but he should probably get other people to write his scripts. The first thirty minutes or so (particularly the first scene) were a great set-up, but the moment we get into actual plot developments - and worst of all…
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1972
Hooptober 11 #32
Having heard that this was a giallo film (and pretty much nothing else) I was expecting it to be gruesomely fun like the other movies from the genre. Instead, though, I was treated to a film that wallows in the ugliness of violence. This movie is deeply upsetting, showing the darkness of human nature, not just in the killer but the world surrounding them as well. We get an incredibly derisive depiction of conservative Italy. The killer's…
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2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Ah yes, the accomplice must have been somebody that all the families would trust without question, somebody beyond suspicion. Who wouldn't trust a creepy nun delivering a detailed doll replica of their child?
Osgood Perkins seems like a reasonably promising director, but he should probably get other people to write his scripts. The first thirty minutes or so (particularly the first scene) were a great set-up, but the moment we get into actual plot developments - and worst of all…
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1972
Hooptober 11 #32
Having heard that this was a giallo film (and pretty much nothing else) I was expecting it to be gruesomely fun like the other movies from the genre. Instead, though, I was treated to a film that wallows in the ugliness of violence. This movie is deeply upsetting, showing the darkness of human nature, not just in the killer but the world surrounding them as well. We get an incredibly derisive depiction of conservative Italy. The killer's…
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