Category Archives: Entropy

‘Simple Favor’ gleeful, twisted

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 A Simple Favor is a fiendish delight of a film, one that was clearly fun to make and is just as fun to watch. Stay-at-home widow Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) puts the other moms of her Connecticut suburb to … Continue reading →

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‘The Predator’ is a two hour riff on mental illness and I’m actually a little sick to my stomach

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

1/10 The Predator is one of the most appalling things that’s ever been released in theaters. I don’t want to give this a full review – it’s not a full movie, so why would I? It was established very publicly … Continue reading →

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‘Searching’ a great story, not right for its gimmick

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

6/10 When I saw the first Unfriended, I thought it had the potential to advance film as an art from in a way that very few movies can. Four years later, Searching, which is also entirely composed of shots on … Continue reading →

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‘The Nun’ is 90 minutes of unvarnished nonsense

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

1/10 Imagine if The Evil Dead 2 took itself seriously. That’s The Nun. The Nun is that bad. “The darkest chapter of The Conjuring Universe” – because aping the language of its sister Insidious series wasn’t enough, they also had to … Continue reading →

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Unheralded ‘Little Stranger’ one of the year’s best

Posted on October 3, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 Lenny Abrahamson’s The Little Stranger didn’t even make $1 million – after a three weekend release, it’s wallowing at $713,143 domestic while most of the country was watching Crazy Rich Asians. Given how well The Nun would do just … Continue reading →

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