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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…
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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…
★☆☆☆☆
Puzzle Box
Do you enjoy watching a couple of idiots run around a house screaming for 90 minutes? I don’t.
★★☆☆☆
The Darkness of the Road
A dull slog toward an ending you can see coming from miles away. The atmosphere can only carry it so far when…
★★☆☆☆
The Glenarma Tapes
Mostly just a bunch of people I couldn't see running around in the woods. Darkness can create tension in found footage, but…
★★☆☆☆
Confessions (Kokuhaku)
It takes an awfully long road to reach an ending that only landed as so-so for me. The stylish presentation and shifting…
★★★☆☆
Think Big
A bittersweet end to my Barbarian Brothers journey. They had the charisma, chemistry, and larger-than-life presence to be huge stars, but nobody…
★★★☆☆
Keeping Room, The
The Civil War setting gives everything a brutal, unforgiving edge. The isolation, constant danger, and desperate performances make survival feel exhausting even…
★★☆☆☆
Kidan: Piece of Darkness
Most of these tales land somewhere between mildly creepy and just okay. There are a couple of effective ideas, but too many…