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This is my favorite Bond movie. I can't stop thinking about how, under the gritty tone and spectacular violence, there is a genuine good nature to the film.

I think one must be a little heretical to tell the story of Jesus, the most well known heretic in history

Breathtaking visuals, sound design, and soundtrack meet mediocre, stilted dialogue and blizzard editing choices. Christopher Nolan is the monkey's paw

This was an incredibly embarrassing watch. Each day as a Star Wars fan is more of a humiliation ritual than the day before.

Reading these critic reviews is cracking me up, these people don't know peak when they see it. This movie is actually really powerful when it wants to be, and some of it's little gags are extremely quotable and very underrated.

This movie gets better every time I watch it. It works well comedically in the same way that an 80s Ferris Bueller-style film does, with horror and sci-fi elements through a hyper-stylized lens. The gnostic themes of forbidden knowledge in a corrupt world is haunting, and the vibes of the scenes with Frank are insanely unique and freaky.

An instant classic, a painful and beautiful watch, the Will to Power incarnate, Marty Mauser, is such an unlikeable person and yet an altogether un-hateable force of nature. Timothee might be a generational talent

Unpleasant, meandering crap :( The editing is seizure-inducing, and the story is non-existent

Standard Biopic in that it acts as propaganda and retcons you into believing that the artist in question is the best to ever do it Directed by Brian Singer: -2

This is the darkest and possibly the best of the series, with plenty of clever stunts and charachter drama.

This **** corny as hell, dawg. What were they going for? It's a miracle they kept making these.

This movie reignited a genre of spy movies, likely spurring on some of the best Bond movies alongside an ongoing epic.

I cried rewatching this. I've seen it dozens of times in my childhood, but all the messages of broken family hit home this time and I love it.

Super funny and awkward, a great feature length serving of Tim Robinson's comedy with the edges rounded by Paul Rudd's charm.

Incredibly raw, real, and tense. The level of discomfort that Safdie is able to pack into his media is ungodly, and I love it.

Unbelievably moving, and a message to the film industry that characters, acting, and communication don't have to be absolutely awful. Without a single line of dialogue, Flow creates more moving characters than many modern films, and shows a dedication to studying animal behavior and subtle movements and expressions.

I really wanted to love this movie. Robert Pattinson is great as usual, but all of the interesting concepts in the movie get pushed aside for surface-level satire. The ethics of cloning, the concept of the self and if it is more than a combination of its memories... these lose screentime to Maek Ruffalo's subpar Donald Trump impression. The top-rate CG effects were beautiful on an IMAX screen, but they were interesting between scenes of SNL style parody. Sad!

Surprisingly disjointed, almost feels like a parody of the horror genre rather than a thriller. The calloused reactions to brutal deaths make it seem unrealistic and goofy.

"Crap lousy ceiling!" Lots of neat concepts mostly ripped from better sci-fi, and put together in the worst way achievable. Super entertaining though

Over time, Robin Williams wacky improv and random impressions have gained a notable level of cringe. The slapstick antics of this film juxtaposed against emotional family beats is hard to take seriously or find fully funny.

These movies really nail the characters and their chemistry, this one maybe a bit less than the first one. The complaints about Galactus being a big cloud are silly, a giant purple guy standing next to Earth wouldn't have looked good or made any sense in the context of these movies. Doom is ridiculous in this movie and could have been used better.

Actually underrated, still holds up for the most part, and the character performances are great.

The VFX really hold up after 20+ years, and I like a lot about this movie, however, the script is kind of abysmal.

Deeply unsettling, and while I'm told that's the point, I still don't agree with a film about child exploitation being presented as a feminist masterpiece. There are heavy notes of arthouse pretentiousness and hollow pseudo-intellectualism that try to disguise pedophilic material as tasteful, and I don't buy it.

I can't exactly place how I feel about Megalopolis. It's all over the place, and I can't tell what it's going for. I kept trying to adapt my perspective to better suit the movie, which is not a labor that is usually asked by media. I tried viewing it as a play, as a dream, as a look at society from a completely alienated lens, but it tries to do too many things and never quite nails anything.

A remake of a knockoff of a beloved story, Nosferatu tries to honor the feel of classic movies while also creating horror for a modern audience. Sometimes this disconnect created unintentionally funny moments, as Count Orloc is unbelievably over the top. While stunning to watch, the film struggles to keep all of its elements aligned, as some of the acting falls apart, especially in attempts to match a particular style of speaking. Not as believable as Egger's VVITCH, the old-timey """German""" accents are unconsistent, as is Depp's depiction of possession-like madness.

A gripping view on hopelessness and the lows it can bring people to, The Whale is earnest and asks you to examine true honesty for yourself.

There's something sincere about how fantastical and wacky this is. It's like the Fifth Element if it was really bad, or like a Marvel movie with no charismatic characters.

Obviously a very iconic and star-studded film. However, It doesn't have much to say that it doesn't accomplish about halfway through. There's no act structure, it's just scenes, it's just stuff happening. It's mostly the same stuff happening over and over.

Peak Batman movie. I was worried that a rewatch would be tainted by years of cringe fan obsession over the Joker, but it still holds up.

This movie is so evil! The quality is so much higher than the previous two films, but the plot really marks them as required watching. The fact that the movie requires you see two low budget entries to understand most of this film is kind of a strange ask, as I would assume the big-budget entry would semi-reboot the franchise, but I guess I can respect that choice. The third act really falls apart and decreased the quality of the film overall, adding a lot of unnecessary complicated lore, but it was still the best of the series by far.

A very good follow up to the original, following up with characters from on and off screen in a clever way.

An homage to the classics, filled with direct references to the classics, which became a classic in itself.

A higher budget follow up that really brings more of what people were expecting from the first one (gore) but with a notable amount of improvements in its story and characters as well.

A basic low-budget horror flick, but with some truly disturbing sequences that stick in the memories of those who watch. The slasher of the film is just interesting enough to keep the movie going.

Went into this movie expecting little, as I had seen a lot of negative reception, but I feel like everything worked and made sense. The complaints I've seen feel like the same as the Last of Us 2 hate, where fans cannot handle a different angle on a story. Specifically, I think people hate consequences. Edit: I forgot this movie existed, so it obviously didn't do much for me in the long run, -2 The musical numbers made sense in the context and setup very creative setpieces that would otherwise not appear in the setting of the film... You wouldn't get it. Edit: it was kind of uninteresting in hindsight. :(

It's hard to say that this movie is underrated, but I think it is. There's a lot to dig into here and, ironically, I feel like people don't take it seriously enough.

Surprisingly entertaining story and characters, well-done visuals, fight scenes that stayed entertaining throughout, and some genuinely funny moments.

While it's more "hilariously bad" than the other Sony Marvel movies due to its The Room-level ADR, it's still super boring. *honk shoo honk shoo* (me sleeping) *zzzz mimimi zzzz mimimi*

Hype train with cameos and horny jokes, fun action and violence. Everything people want from a Deadpool movie with maybe less heart than it's predecessors.

The best movie theater experience I've had in a long time. Horror and sci-fi have been blended together perfectly in a way not seen since the original Alien film. All of the elements worked, from the characters to the effects to the soundtrack. Peak body horror.

Heart-wrenching and sincere. The start-studded cast feels so authentic to the characters they protray. A tragic romance that captures the **** experience in a society that hates us.

Realism to the point it's painful to watch. Addiction is brutal to see like this.

Really not as fun and badass as it should be. Even the 1st person scene meant to emulate the games felt incredibly slow upon rewatch. The plot is overly convoluted and silly, and even in 2005, relatively early into his acting career, The Rock was screentime-hungry and surprisingly uncharasmetic.

One of the most heart-wrenching stories put to the screen, serving as criticism of corporate greed, and showing the humanity that is often sacrificed to create art. An incredible gnostic theme, starring an actor who, at the time, was previously overlooked as only a wacky comedy actor.

This movie is how an ensemble cast should not behave. Almost every actor was begging for the spotlight with over the top performances, especially Daniel Craig's ridiculous Detective Foghorn Leghorn.

Funny and disturbing! As in, it starts funny, and ends up being disturbing. Incredible cast and unbelievable practical effects.

Soul-crushing. Beautiful. Disgusting. Frightening. Cosmic horror masked in religion and technology, and presented incredibly artfully.

So bad that it's bad. I watched it several times in theaters, which I'm not proud of. It's honestly kinda fun though :)

I still get emotional thinking about this documentary. I will never ever eat octopus.