Tag: Review
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‘Pulse’ Makes Us Take a Silly Premise Seriously
It’s a nightmare-as-movie, where not much makes sense but where the environment in which everything takes place is so creepily immersive, feels true enough, that even when things get a hair tedious you still haven’t gotten rid of the pit that has formed in your gut.
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Sex and Death, Locked in a Tango, in ‘Def by Temptation’
In this atmospheric and sensual (but not humorless) horror movie, Bible-style capital-T temptation is embodied by a blood-thirsty, ostensibly eons-old succubus that disguises itself as a distractingly beautiful woman.
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Bad Ideas
On ‘Halloween Kills’ and ‘Lamb.’
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‘Countess Dracula’ Doesn’t Deserve Ingrid Pitt
‘Countess Dracula’’s wall-to-wall wasted potential is almost as suffocating as the castle in which its bloodthirsty noblewoman commits her imaginatively heinous crimes.
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Men on Missions
On ‘No Time to Die’ and ‘The Guilty’
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‘The House That Dripped Blood’ is a Solid Horror-Omnibus Movie
Even if ‘The House That Dripped Blood’ isn’t particularly scary in real time, the places its stories go manage to still linger in our memory a bit — an effect all good horror should have.
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‘The Reincarnation of Peter Proud’ Doesn’t Go Where You Think It Will
The finale is so wonderfully ghoulish — it almost makes the story feel like an old moral tale — that I’m sure Peter Proud might wish he’d woken up prematurely yet again instead of getting what he thought he wanted.
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‘Museo’ Smartly Rejiggers the Heist Movie
The film tries to stay planted in real life; it’s grounded by its convincingly co-dependent lead performances and Ruizpalacios’s measured and thoughtful approach to what is outwardly a too-wild-to-be-true curiosity of a story.
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Smoke Screens
On ‘The Nowhere Inn’ and ‘Prisoners of the Ghostland.’
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‘Taste of Cherry’ is Simple and Complicated
The jarring meta finale may seem playful — from a pessimistic perspective even a copout — but I think it’s wise.
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‘The Straight Story’ is a Surprisingly Sweet Effort from David Lynch
I’ll admit that I teetered on the verge of tears for almost all of ‘The Straight Story.’
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‘The Loneliest Planet’ Upends the End-of-a-Relationship Movie
The movie isn’t about who these people are, but how they respond to the unexpected.
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