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TheFilmologist.com • Regular movie reviews of new releases • Usually seeing stuff 1-2 weeks too late to be relevant

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Rear Window
  • Hot Fuzz

All
  • One of Them Days

    ★★★

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★★

  • The Ring

    ★★★★

  • Ring

    ★★★

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2016

★★★★ Rewatched

Watched after finishing Andor like everyone else. I still think this movie and Andor are the only Star Wars things that are actually good. **hides**

The Ring

2002

★★★★ Rewatched

Watched this and the Japanese original back to back and definitely prefer the remake. Verbinski is a much better visual stylist and smoothes the narrative out significantly. It's a good story, and both are done well. Glad this holds up as well as I ed!

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Blink Twice

2024

3

This year's "Don't Worry Darling"; an Emerald Fennell-lite psychological thriller that takes a socially relevant premise and tries to fit it into an allegorical genre exercise. It does not work at all.

It doesn't feel good to dunk on a movie that wants to speak to how women are traumatized by men's abuse of power, but the movie operates at such a surface level that I'm not sure it's telling anyone anything they don't already know in 2024. Men behave…

Sinners

2025

★★★★ Watched

A cautionary tale of what happens when you try and appropriate Irish drinking culture.