2 out of 4 stars - SKIP IT
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Craft can only get you so far. All the gross makeup effects and creepy sound design in the world are never going to be enough if you don't have a story that makes a tiny bit of sense and characters you care about. Even in a horror movie.
The movie opens with an expedition in Cairo where, wouldn't you know it, an ancient sarcophagus is opened and a…

3 out of 4 stars - SEE IT

For some reason I had never seen the 1971 cult classic Harold And Maude, so as I sat down to it, ready for the story of a love affair between a 20 year old and a 79 year old, I am somewhat releaved to find out that it is not really about that at all. We don't even get a sex scene between the kid and the granny; we get an implied…

2 out of 4 stars
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Highly ambitious yet overwrought, this is not Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; this is Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein all the way. All the major themes and events are there, but something about this feels too modernized.
Filmed mostly on digital video, this has such a clean polished sheen to it that oftentimes it feels like we are watching a video game. For all the art direction and costume design which are both admittedly gorgeous,…

4 out of 4 stars
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This is Yorgos Lanthimos' greatest and most ambitious film, period.
I can't recall a film as of late that walked such a tense tightrope act of making us care about one side of the party, then 10 minutes later making us care about the other, on and on until the conclusion. This movie provocatively dares to ask, "what if all the redneck whacko conspiracy theorists are correct?" and also, "what if they…