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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Nanny OK/G
New film on Amazon Prime marketed as a horror drama,
emphasis on the drama. It works best as
a character study above all. The few
“horror” elements we do see are kind of lame and the worst parts of the movie
actually. It involves a Senegalese woman
in New York watching a couple’s young daughter in hopes of making enough money
to bring over her young son from Africa.
She appears to be welcome at first until eventually she’s scolded for
things like feeding the girl food she prepares herself and for not always keeping
an eye on her (pertaining to one incident in the park). The matriarch also hasn’t paid her for quite
some time. The ending is such a sucker
punch to the gut; it is very depressing, thereby making it the most horrific
aspect of the entire film. 12/17/2022
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery OK
According to my archives, I only gave Knives Out an EH rating; I definitely would’ve rated it higher the
second time I watched it. Only Daniel
Craig’s detective character returns in this sequel (now available on Netflix) with
a new set of characters, all of which congregate at the titular structure on an
island in Greece for a murder mystery.
Initially things don’t go as planned, or so we’re lead to believe. There are only so many ways to do a whodunit,
let alone most types of movies, so a good group of characters are surely needed,
which we do get to know most of them here a good deal. Conventions are tinkered with a bit (it is sometimes
well-written), but it is (expectedly) rather indistinguishable and does
overstay its welcome at almost 2 ½ hours.
Like I said, there’s not too much you can expect from a whodunit/murder
mystery/whatever-you-want-to-call-it anymore.
12/23/2022
Other movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Eyes Wide Shut >>>OK/G
The Loneliest Boy in the World >>>EH
The Minute You Wake Up Dead >>>EH/OK
Perfect Blue >>>EH
(In Japanese with
subtitles)
Sole Survivor (1984) >>>EH
Spooky+ >>>B/EH
---Sean O.12/24/2022
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