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Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire 2024

½ Watched 04 Jan 2025

0.5 out of 4 stars.
This is barely a movie.
This feels like a videogame cut-away scene.
In the time of Xbox and Playstation 5 and the fine line between CGI and realism and AI, it is movies like this that make movies not feel special anymore.
Wicked 2024

★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2025

3 out of 4 stars.
I already know the ending.
But that's okay, because it is about the trip not the destination, and the trip is (mostly) fun.
This is one long over-bloated massively digital large-scale production, something that director John M. Chu specializes in. At 2 1/2 hours, parts lag, pacing stumbles, and it could be cut by 30 minutes. This will not matter to anyone who cherishes the Broadway play. I have no ties to the play or…

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Caddo Lake 2024

★★★½ Watched 13 Oct 2024

3.5 out of 4 stars
SAFE - NO SPOILERS
Your Session Is Up. Need More Time?
Here is a mystery that builds and builds until the tension has you sitting up in your seat, wondering how it is going to play out, and if the filmmakers can keep up this juggling act.
The plot involves two story threads, both of which take place in the swamp/lake community of Caddo Lake: one is of a young man named Paris, the kid…
Alien: Romulus 2024

★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2024

3.5 stars out of 4.
SAFE - NO SPOILERS
Returns to the roots.
I guess fans of the Alien franchise thought that Prometheus and Alien Covenant were too intellectual. Director Fede Alvarez, who also made the horror film Don't Breathe (gross in a bad way) and the reboot of Evil Dead (gross in a good way), understood his task at hand and took the franchise back to what made people love the original Alien in 1979.
Plot is besides the…

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I rate movies based on 4 STARS, not 5. This is how most critics did it for years, and lots still do. So:
4 stars = great movie.
3 1/2 stars = very good movie.
3 stars = good movie.
Anything above 3 stars is a recommendation.
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