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Review: Godzilla Minus One

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In Godzilla Minus One, the eponymous prehistoric reptile is largely...

Review: Monster (2023)

Like Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster revolves around the theme of conflicting perspectives, adopting a triptych...

Review: The Boy and the Heron

Several critics have asserted that The Boy and the Heron is Hayao Miyazaki’s most “personal” film to date. There may be some merit to...

Review: Wish

As a 100th anniversary celebration, Disney’s Wish is rather lackluster. While the studio certainly makes an effort to pay tribute to its...

Review: The Killer (2023)

The visual style of David Fincher’s The Killer resembles the personality of its protagonist: meticulous, methodical, and relentlessly...

Review: The Mad Fox

If Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji was director Tomu Uchida’s homage to the socially conscious period dramas produced by Sadao Yamanaka...

Review: Return of Daimajin

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Recently, I had the pleasure of revisiting Daiei’s Daimajin. In...

Review: Door

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] When I first discovered the existence of Banmei Takahashi’s Door earlier...

Review: Nightbreed

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Contrary to what the sequels might lead you to believe, Pinhead and his...

Review: Blood and Black Lace

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Giallo—a cinematic genre as distinctly Italian as the spaghetti...

Review: The Quiet Girl

“She says as much as she needs to say.” Within the context of the overarching narrative, this line of dialogue exists to describe the...

Review: A Haunting in Venice

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] A Haunting in Venice is the best entry in Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule...

Review: The Equalizer 3

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] For the majority of its running time, The Equalizer 3—the (allegedly)...

Review: The Case of Hana & Alice

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] There’s an old Japanese proverb that goes, “The nail that sticks...

Review: Violence Voyager

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] After finally seeing Violence Voyager for myself (having learned of its...

Review: Angel’s Egg

In the 1980s and 1990s, a lot of anime was produced exclusively for the booming home video market. Freed from the more stringent...

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