mm has reviewed 5 films tagged ‘bluray’ during 2018.
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★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Dec 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A masterclass in big-budget filmmaking brought to you by the guy who set and has been holding the standard as long as I've been alive.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is pretty much a masterpiece. It nails big moments, small moments and medium-sized moments with the same level of intensity and focus, while never stiffing the audience on the cloak-and-dagger spy stuff we go nuts over.
King to rook 4 for McQuarrie as the best action director working today.
Your move, Nolan.
Grade: 9.5/10
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★★★★½ Rewatched 24 Nov 2018
So great it doesn’t need a “live action” adaptation.
Grade: 9/10
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★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Nov 2018
May be setting myself up for a major disappointment with Spider's Web, but there's nothing that movie can do to lessen this in my eyes.
Fincher's Dragon Tattoo is sublime. There is no director that can raise source material quite like he can. In the hands of a lesser talent, movies like Seven, Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl could be trashy or pulpy (which can be awesome) but his presence behind the camera adds an extra layer of something that…
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★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Oct 2018
If cancer is ever definitively cured, that person will have become the only person to ever be better at their job than Aaron Sorkin is at his.
Grade: 9/10
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If you have a specific phobia of hammy acting and lame killing sequences, then Halloween will scare the shit out of you.
But, yeah, it doesn't hold up at all through 2018 eyes. In fact, I can't help but wonder how this actually scared people way back when. The Exorcist came out 5 years earlier and is legitimately still upsetting. This? Total cheese-fest.
Blows my mind that anyone would find this the least bit unsettling. Whatever.
Grade: 5/10
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