Make no mistake. ‘A Haunting in Venice’ may not be perfect, but it’s still a scary good time. While it’s hard to say if it’s the best in the franchise, it is undeniably just as good as the first two entries.
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A priest, a psychic, and an astrophysicist walk into a haunted house. While you might think that’s a setup for some cheesy joke, it’s a partial plot description for Disney’s latest film adaptation of its iconic theme park attraction, ‘The Haunted Mansion’.
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Missing is truly immersive and enthralling, making the audience feel as if they were in the movie themselves. While the ending may leave the viewer slightly unsatisfied, lovers of thrillers and suspenseful movies will be on the edge of their seat due to the films’ twists.
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Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Eternal Daughter’ is a chilling subversion of the haunted house mystery, and the director proves that our own memories and experiences are much more unsettling than any ghosts could be.
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Thomas M. Wright’s The Stranger is the latest in a long time of true-crime dramas in Netflix’s extensive catalog, and thanks to the director’s astute eye for detail and dedication to the film’s dark and hopeless atmosphere, it manages to stand out as one of the streaming service’s best.
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The long-awaited ‘Death on the Nile’, a follow-up to director Kenneth Branagh’s revitalization of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ has finally arrived in theatres. But this sequel may leave some audience members seasick.
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Hot off his Oscar win, Guillermo Del Toro is back with a new, expectedly dark and alluring film in the form of ‘Nightmare Alley’. Based on the novel, of the same name, and inspired by the Edmund Goulding 1947 film, del Toro has mustered up a strikingly atmospheric noir that effortlessly transports spectators into the filmmaker’s dark vision.
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A film that prides itself on being the first Black-Western, ‘The Harder They Fall’ is a viciously brutal and wildly captivating adventure from start to finish, boasting incredible performances from the whole ensemble that bring their characters to life in the most entertaining of ways.
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The vicious allegorical image of the werewolf allows Josh Ruben to probe into the social and political distrust that remains in the post-Trump era, but Werewolves Within inability to tighten up the tried-and-tested horror-comedy genre with various gags that fizzle out may ultimately irritate some.
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While ‘Flashback’ uses the time-loop genre to warn us of predictive data analysis, its message doesn’t fully align with its cryptic story.
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It’s no masterpiece, and certainly falls victim to genre clichés and predictability, but “The Little Things” is enjoyable enough, standing largely on the shoulders of a punching-below-his-weight Denzel Washington.
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Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson might not be household names, but something is on the horizon for this duo. Their new film, SYNCHRONIC has subtext, a message, and a key central idea, but because Moorhead & Benson wanted to introduce so many elements from different genres, almost all of that effective storytelling was, ironically… lost in time.
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Not since “Clue” has there been such a wildly entertaining good old fashioned murder mystery. Rian Johnson breathes new life into a neglected genre with his Agatha Christie inspired throwback offering a timely modern twist on a classic favorite.
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