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Every shark movie lives in the shadow of Jaws. While not the first, it had an immediate and lasting impact on movie culture and the industry. For one, it spawned a bunch of imitators, most of which failed to make any impression, much less a comparable one. Even once that
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The kind of movie which plays a song called "Fight Like a Girl" by Evanescence over the end credits.
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"Oh sure, I'm a domestic goddess."
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Sally Hawkins going immediately from another Paul King film to an unhinged horror movie is perfection.
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"I can see the future. And it's full of pals helping pals."
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"Is there any need for good? It's unnecessary."
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As a staple of the aughts, it’s fitting that the last entry in the Final Destination horror franchise came fourteen years ago. It’s a series of mid-budget horror films with almost no recurring characters spawned from a rejected spec script for The X Files, squarely situating it in
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From his very first feature, director Trey Edward Shults has excelled in filmmaking as visual art. Krisha, a movie tiny in both scope and scale, was filmed with such vivacity that you couldn't help but get sucked into the protagonist's headspace as she attempted to reinsert
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"This is your destiny. A destiny which touches the lives of every living thing."
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The decline of the movie star has been well-documented. For the uninitiated, the idea is that audiences historically showed up to a movie on the strength of its lead actors, but that’s not generally true anymore. Currently, the ones who can draw a crowd are mostly over forty, indicating
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"Sometimes I confuse feeling bored with feeling hurt. Both can cause you to get carried away."
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"How dark are you willing to go?"