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Reviews
Promising Young Woman (2020)
A promising film
The target is deservedly hit here, but I'm afraid I think the truly chilling coup de grace -- which is the only section of the movie that's really firing -- is on a shaky foundation of predictable douchebro stereotypes, girl power revenge movie tropes, and cheeky pop formal tricks. Now, the project may be to lull me into a feeling of safety before the rug pull, but that doesn't change the fact that not much groundwork is being done with a character about whom we learn materially nothing outside of her trauma, despite a largely terrific performance from Mulligan. This isn't an incoherent film, far from it, but it is bad at being intentionally thorny.
The Good Neighbor (2022)
Beware of thy neighbor
Two neighbors strike up a friendship that quickly spirals out of control when an accident happens that changes both lives. This movie, while a little predictablble in the sense, that as a viewer you know that this friendship can't end well, is straight forward, and was well done. Johnathan Rhys Meyers definetly carries it, but the other actors are ok too. Pacing sometimes a little slow, but overall good.