Nobody (2021) was an outstanding film. Everything about it was innovative, surprising, funny, encouraging, etc. The believability factor was there too. I couldn't wait to watch Nobody 2 (2025).
Nobody 2 (2025) does what many successors do - but not all. It's a continuation with the story line but pumped up with totally outrageousness making it terribly unbelievable. It just became stupid to me. I was fine with never having seen #2. For me, the best part was the first 20-30 minutes. After that, it was just stupidness, but young gamers might like it.
I felt the same way after watching The …
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I was expecting not to like this movie. Everything about it is not my style. This just as easily could have been a high school play than a movie. Nothing about it is a laugh-out-loud comedy, more like ha-that's-true-about-life.
Having said all that, I couldn't stop watching it from start to finish. This is a comic strip summary of life events from a Sunday morning newspaper. It's that sample. The highs and lows are intentionally not realistic.
7/10 for painting a simple film of my life and so many others. It'll likely mellow people out for taking the highs & lows in life too seri…
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This is setting up to be Horrorific, as we've got the cutest couple opening our story with the start of their day. And it begins in the most Gruesome manner, and you won't believe your eyes at the Sheer Brutality of the scenes.
This is one to remember as It's very much like open warfare on the senses with lots of generous amounts of Pure Terror and Oodles of Gore, and where Bravery will be met with Unbridled and Wanton Ferocity.
It's Impressive how much Compassion people have when all is in Pure Kaos, and people are in Full Depravity Mode.…
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"The Great Flood" could have been the most remarkable disaster movie I've ever seen and indeed, on a certain level, it still is.
This film successfully marries up the comfortable, if messy, normality of everyday suburban life, with a, by degree, increasingly terrifying disaster. It starts slowly, with heavy rain but then we see water building to oceanic levels, outside tall South Korean apartment blocks, topped off by horrifying giant waves, that quite literally, shatter the illusion of a safe and predictable future.
Viewed from this perspective this film is simply stunning. Topp…
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"Murderer Report" is not what it first seems.
This is a very layered crime thriller, where assumptions about the motivations and underlying morality, of a serial killer, being interviewed, by a reporter, increasingly challenge both mordern societal and fundamental human norms, raising questions about what it means to psychologically "cured", to be made whole again, as the story gradually, unfolds.
Its a engaging premise, where detailed characteristions, with complex, fluid perspectives, drive this film to its disturbing but nonetheless, satisfying conclusion.
In summary, a compellin…
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"Goodbye June presents itself as an intimate study of the fragility of family ties, balancing Kate Winslet's sensitive and atmospheric direction with overwhelming performances from a cast that elevates archetypes into deeply human figures.
Although the narrative follows conventional paths, the movie triumphs by transforming loss into an emotional laboratory where pain becomes the raw material for the discovery of inner peace.…
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**_Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari in college in Lower Manhattan_**
This is not a raunchy sex comedy like the “American Pie” flicks (thankfully), nor would I describe it as a romantic comedy, although there’s some of that; it’s really a college-oriented drama with some amusing touches, aka dramedy.
Biggs is likable as the protagonist who’s coming-of-age as a young man whilst Suvari is, needless to say, winsome as the love interest. For anyone who condemns the movie for unpalatable elements, such as Dora foolishly sleeping with the charismatic professor (Greg Kinnear), it happens at e…
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A slice-of-life student film from legendary filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation follows young Aloysius Allie Parker, a teenager obsessed with jazz genius Charlie Parker, who is searching for meaning in his life. He drifts through New York City without a clear destination, guided more by feeling than intent. Along the way, he encounters strange and compelling people who briefly enter his life, offering moments of reflection, confusion, and quiet connection rather than answers.
It’s not hard to identify with Allie. He’s a bright young man whose interest in music is a big part of hi…
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Cruising has Al Pacino early in his career taking bold risks, and that alone highlights why he’s considered one of the best actors of all time. He was willing to go places in 1980 that most stars wouldn’t touch, stepping into subject matter that was still largely unexplored on screen. Even when it doesn’t work perfectly, that commitment is admirable.
The film’s production was famously delayed by protests, yet it still premiered on February 8, 1980, before hitting theaters nationwide on February 15. The backlash didn’t stop there. Protests followed the film into its release, and criticis…
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The “Scorpioni” are a bunch of entitled and privileged British women who live in Florence in the 1930s under the leadership of “Lady Hester” (Dame Maggie Smith). She is the widow of the former British Ambassador and is not entirely unsympathetic to the aspirations of “Il Duce”. Occasionally, they have to tolerate the interloping presence of the brash and wealthy American actress “Elsa” (Cher) but even with the aggressive rise of the fascists, that appears to be the only inconvenience in their rarified world. One of their number, “Mary” (Joan Plowright) is a kindly soul, and has taken the recen…
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