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Movies watched, Summer 2024 edition

  1. Inside Out 2 (2024)

    rating 2

    The more emotions this movie introduces, the less emotions they make me feel.

  2. Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)

    rating 2

    The problem of basing the entire movie on inside jokes is that it leaves a lot of people out of them, and it may age badly in the future.

  3. Furiosa (2024)

    rating 3

    It's very hard to follow up one of the greatest films of all time.

  4. Beverly Hills Cop Axel F (2024)

    rating 2

    It's been 40 years since the first movie, and it's still the same old dog doing same old tricks.

  5. Twisters (2024)

    rating 1

    What's the point of this movie when you can just watch the 1996 classic?

  6. Vermines (2024)

    rating 3

    Attack The Block, but in France, and with the creepiest spiders ever put on film.

  7. A Quiet Place Day One (2024)

    rating 2

    The premise seems to be losing freshness, it even borrows some clichés from zombie movies.

  8. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

    rating 3

    Inglourious Basterds but dumber, but also more fun.

  9. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

    rating 5

    This series keeps releasing one banger after the other. A criminally underrated sci-fi masterpiece.

  10. MaXXXine (2024)

    rating 4

    Another banger from the X saga. The movie feels and looks old, but the lack of gratuituous boobs breaks the immersion.

  11. In A Violent Nature (2024)

    rating 4

    This year is turning to be a milestone for horror movies. A gory, gruesome update of the slasher sub-genre.

  12. Late Night With the Devil (2024)

    rating 3

    The perfect spooky movie for streaming.

  13. Immaculate (2024)

    rating 1

    Sidney Sweeney may have been a puritanic maid in the Handmaid's Tale, but she's not a believable horror-movie nun.

  14. Control (2024)

    rating 1

    A campy, unintentionally funny bad movie made with a shoestring budget. I'd watch it again as a play.

  15. I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

    rating 3

    If you asked some advanced AI to make you the quintessential A24 movie, it will come up with something like this.

  16. Longlegs (2024)

    rating 3

    A rudimentary serial killer, supernatural horror, saved by Nicolas Cage in drag.

  17. Thelma (2024)

    rating 4

    This film reminds you that grannies are precious, and how can you argue with that.