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Past Lives (2023)

One of my favorite kinds of films is “two-hander starring attractive people who want to hook up but can’t due to their personal circumstances.”

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Promising Young Woman (2020)

It seems fair to judge Promising Young Woman as a “message film” when that’s how it’s so clearly positioned itself:

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Hamlet (1996)

My journey with Hamlet continues with the biggest adaptation of them all

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The Raid 2 (2014)

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Safe Haven (from V/H/S/2) (2013)

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The Raid (2011)

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Trolls (2016)

Trolls represents the start of a new era for DreamWorks Animation.

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Merantau (2009)

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Director: Gareth Evans

In the last twenty years, there has perhaps been no one filmmaker more influential on the course of action cinema than Gareth Evans.

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Footsteps (2006)

So: at some point next year, Gareth Evans’ sixth feature as director, Havoc, is due to drop on Netflix, and it is, by some margin, my most anticipated film of 2024.