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The Last Exorcism: Part II (2013)

The Last Exorcism: Part II is dreadfully boring.

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Whiplash (Short Film) (2013)

In 2013, Damien Chazelle premiered at Sundance a short film called Whiplash designed to build up interest in creating a feature film version of the story, which already had a script.

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The Last Exorcism (2010)

The pitch is sound: 1973’s The Exorcist, but found footage.

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Knives Out (2019)

It’s often easier to remember the flaws of a movie than its strengths.

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The Menu (2022)

There is some irony inherent in writing and reading a review of a film like The Menu.

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Guiellermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio does a bunch of little- to medium-sized things wrong, but none of them end up mattering very much because it is such a fundamentally good movie.

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Strange World (2022)

To say the 61st feature created by Walt Disney Animation Studios came and went with little fanfare would be the understatement of 2022.

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Romancing the Stone (1984)

Romancing the Stone’s biggest problem is that its opening is too good.

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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)

So often, you hear great filmmakers talk about their love of film in spiritual terms.

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Sam & Kate (2022)

You may as well call it Nepo Baby: The Movie.