Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
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by Connor Adamson
5h ago
In a word? Tedious. The writing was tedious. The direction was tedious. The plot was tedious. The characters were tedious. While hardly the worst or most offensive franchise legacy sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is mostly a drag to watch. This is exemplified in every scene with Bill Murray, who seems utterly bored by the tedium of it all. Like Ghostbusters: Afterlife before it, Frozen Empire continues the bizarre mistake of following the formula that has plagued many of these soft reboots over the last decade. Aside from how played-out many of these nostalgia-lad ..read more
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Review: Imaginary
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by Connor Adamson
1w ago
Forgive the obvious pun, but Imaginary is a film sorely lacking imagination. An ostensible horror flick from the genius director Jeff Wadlow, behind such Blumhouse classics as Truth or Dare and Fantasy Island, it seems Wadlow has hit a new low in his filmmaking. Imaginary manages the miracle of shoving every single jump scare Blumhouse horror trope into one film. Every line of dialogue feels like it was deliberately written to be as generic as possible. Every edit and beat seems like it had to meet with approval by audience research pools or test screenings ..read more
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Five Years Later: A New Look at the Top 20 Films of 2018
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by Nigel Druitt
2w ago
Every year, we at Flickchart publish our year-end list of the best films of the previous year, as ranked by our users. This year, our list of the Top 20 Films of 2023 was published on January 6, 2024. As more users see and rank more movies, the global Flickchart — and each year in microcosm — is in constant flux. We took another look at the top 20 films of 2022 on January 10, 2024. Today we’re looking at the Top 20 Films of 2018. For comparison’s sake, you can see how that list looked on January 1, 2019 and January 13, 2020. So what’s happened since? 20. Upgrade Directed by Leigh Whannell C ..read more
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Dune: Part Two – Welcome to the Desert of the… Well, the Actual Desert
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by Douglas Van Hollen
2w ago
“…within the three great desert faiths there was a feminine impulse, less strong but ever present, the tradition of absorption rather than assertion, assertive rather than authority, of play rather than dogmatic servitude. Think of the delicate poetry of the song of songs or the delicacy of the celebration of the maternal represented by the Renaissance Madonna or the architectural lines of the medieval mosques of Spain, light as music. And yet the louder, more persistent tradition has been male concerned with power and blood…” – Richard Rodriguez Our messiah comes into an ersatz-Jerusalem ..read more
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Review: Dune: Part Two
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by Connor Adamson
3w ago
Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune took the world mostly by storm back in 2021. Frank Herbert’s sci-fi opera classic was long considered an un-filmable work. David Lynch‘s ill-fated 1984 attempt was considered an exemplar of that reality (though has more merit than many credit it). Yet Villeneuve proved the world wrong with his specific style of filmmaking, managing to boil down half of Dune‘s story into a work that kept the operatic scope of the novel while maintaining fidelity to the themes and storytelling beats. The biggest complaint with the first film was that it ended on a cliffhanger a ..read more
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The 13th Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards Winners
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by Ross Bonaime
3w ago
For the thirteenth year in a row, Flickcharters have voted for their favorites in a wide variety of categories, from the worst and best of the previous year to the films that interest us most in the coming year. Now that the votes have been tallied, here are your winners for The 13th Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!   Best Foreign Language Film Anatomy of a Fall The Boy and the Heron Godzilla Minus One Society of the Snow The Zone of Interest And The Winner Is… No surprise that Godzilla Minus One would have a monstrous lead in this category, earning 43.8% of the vote ..read more
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Review: Drive Away Dolls
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by Connor Adamson
1M ago
Drive-Away Dolls comes as the first feature-length narrative feature from Ethan Coen, one half of the acclaimed directing duo the Coen Brothers. While Joel already had his first solo film several years back with the well-received The Tragedy of Macbeth, Ethan’s only film had been a documentary about famous rocker Jerry Lee Lewis. Drive-Away Dolls is a crime caper in the vein of prior Coen Brothers titles, with snappy dialogue and quirky characters. And while the film does capture some of the energy and humor of a classic Coen feature, Ethan’s first solo film suffers from uneven writing t ..read more
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Vote for the 13th Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards
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by Ross Bonaime
1M ago
For the thirteenth year, members of the Flickcharters Facebook group have voted in several categories to create The Flickcharters’ Choice Awards. Our previous winners have been Drive, Django Unchained, Gravity, Guardians of the Galaxy, Mad Max: Fury Road, La La Land, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Baby Driver, A Quiet Place, Parasite, Soul, Dune, and last year’s winner, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Here are your nominees for the 13th Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards! Click VOTE to submit your ballot by 11:59pm ES ..read more
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Review: Lisa Frankenstein
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by Connor Adamson
1M ago
At first blush, the plot description of Lisa Frankenstein might make one think: didn’t Warm Bodies come out already? Despite originating from the pen of acclaimed screenwriter Diablo Cody, Lisa Frankenstein is hardly the most original film. In fact, it is very deliberately an homage to a variety of Cody’s influences. Set in 1989, the film aims to take the 80s teen comedy and splash it with a dash of 50s horror and even early Hollywood strangeness. The result is a film that is unfortunately fairly mediocre, though one can praise Cody and director Zelda Williams for at ..read more
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Review: I.S.S.
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by Connor Adamson
1M ago
I.S.S. is a film with a half-decent concept. A tense thriller set in the claustrophobic confines of a tiny space station automatically makes for some great tension — look no further than the sci-fi horror Alien. I.S.S. shrinks that setting down further to the few chambers of the International Space Station, an endeavor that the opening titles describe as a symbol of post-Cold War collaboration and peace between Russia and America. As the film opens, things go wrong on Earth and the crew of three American scientists and three Russian scientists are both secretly told to take over the ISS, by a ..read more
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