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Insidious: Out of the Further
It's actually a pretty clever direction to take a franchise this far along, and I appreciated the attempt to do something different.…
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Death Cycle
What a disappointment after the terrific For the Sake of Vicious. The lead character is a total drip, the effects are embarrassingly…
★★★☆☆
Models vs Werewolves
It's hard to get mad at a Full Moon movie. Cheap effects and ridiculous ideas are part of the charm. But the…
★★☆☆☆
Lanterns: Season 1
Wonderful performances overall, but an almost criminal reliance on telling over showing. Nearly ruined the entire experience for me.
★★★☆☆
13 Assassins
It takes a little too long setting the table, and I was starting to wonder when we’d finally get moving. Then the…
★★☆☆☆
Hellmouth
I admire the swing with the virtual sets and the commitment to creating such a strange visual world. Unfortunately, the story just…
★★☆☆☆
Hypnotic
This might be the most Netflix movie I've ever seen. Slick enough to look respectable, generic enough to instantly forget, and so…
★☆☆☆☆
Boarding School
For a minute I thought I'd stumbled onto some forgotten '80s oddity, then I realized this was made in 2017. Unfortunately, what…
★★☆☆☆
The Funeral Home
They really make you work for those last ten minutes. Almost the entire movie is spent waiting for something, anything, to happen,…
★★★★☆
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
For me, this is Schoenbrun’s best movie yet. The tone, imagery, and characters have stuck with me far longer than I expected,…
★★★☆☆
Ice Cream Man
Oh Eli Roth, I fall for your tricks every time. The gore is an absolute blast, but the ugly, garish cinematography nearly…
★★☆☆☆
Time Cut
Feels like someone asked AI to generate the most generic Netflix time-travel slop imaginable. Every character, twist, and emotional beat feels assembled…