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Doom

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“Kill them all, let God sort them out.”

I played the new Doom game recently and decided to revisit this, and boy is it bad — it hits on a couple of notes of the notes from the original game, but burns the rest in a tyre fire.

★★✩✩✩

Killer Joe

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“If you insult me again, I will cut your face off and wear it over my own. Do you understand?”

Dark, and blackly funny, it’s brutal and depraved, and so watchable due to the great acting from all involved.

★★★★✩

True Grit

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“You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.”

Another Coen Brothers masterpiece, quietly hilarious, charming, and beautiful — and despite Jeff Bridges being almost incomprehensible throughout, it’s still one of their better works.

★★★★★

Dallas Buyers Club

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“There ain’t nothin’ out there can kill fuckin’ Ron Woodroof in 30 days.”

A spectacular ‘biopic’ of real life HIV patient Woodroof and his quest to treat and cure HIV and AIDS patients in Texas (and make bank doing so)  — with career defining performances all round it’s unmissable.

★★★★★

22 Bullets

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“Spilled blood never dries.”

Standard revenge fare — a French Taken or John Wick, a fun movie but ultimately disjointed and disposable.

★★★✩✩

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