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“Dig yourselves some pretty little graves, and dig one for your mother, too.”
A very interesting and hauntingly beautiful take on the Grimm fairytale, it’s very dark and dim, but nevertheless incredible to look at — unnerving and inspired, it’s a fabulous update on the classic and worth checking out.
★★★★☆
“He said that wherever I went, he would find me, walk right up to me, and I wouldn’t be able to see him.”
Dark and anxiety-inducing — a brilliantly updated version of the classic monster movie, that bears little resemblance but is all the better for it; great sets, a whip-smart premise, and some unbearably tense moments — incredibly good for the $7MM budget.
★★★★☆
“Repent and you will find salvation”
The film has a weird start that genuinely shocked me and rolls into one of the more tense and devious horror-thrillers I can remember — one that has multiple plausible explanations until the very moment it doesn’t; it’s also shot and edited beautifully.
★★★★★
“I’ll hurt more than anyone here — no doubt. Second place or tenth place to me is the same thing: not winning.”
I’ve fallen out of regular Crossfit classes (due in part to the great quarantine of 2020) but every year when I watch the new documentary I get sucked back in — it’s crazy to think that some of the best and most moving and inspirational sports documentaries are of a sport that’s only 20 years old.
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“I hope that one day you can see in me the man that you once hoped I would be”
A very solid movie from a journeyed director and the underrated Ben Affleck, telling a seemingly personal journey of redemption through service; it teems with great acting and directing even though it is a little undermined by being a little cliché.
★★★☆☆