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The Holiday (2021)
Gripping
Really enjoyed it. Plenty of twists and the most important thing is that everything made sense as the plot revealed itself. So many mysteries let themselves down by having a crappy ending, but this kept you right until the end. Excellent series.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Just awful
Firstly, Jennifer Lawrence can't act because her face is completely paralysed with botox. I don't know why on earth she doesn't give it a break in order to do her job.
Secondly, it's not funny. There are a few clumsy attempts at humour which fail every time, either by being too obvious or just puzzling without being funny.
Without humour, none of it makes for interesting watching.
No idea why this rubbish film was made, nor can I understand why it has any positive comments. It was so excruciatingly bad we gave up on it within twenty minutes. That's enough torture for anyone, so I make no apologies for that.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Pretentious waste of my evening
I don't often give reviews, but this was so awful, I feel an obligation to warn others. It was described as cerebral on Netflix, but it wasn't the least bit thought provoking. Not one single idea worth a second of pondering on. Sometimes I have seen some great arty films, but this was gibberish with absolutely no redeeming qualities. There were some weird bits early on which gave me hope that it might turn out to be sci-fi, but no such luck. More like going to the theatre than the cinema.
Stranger Within (2013)
Spectacularly bad
We guessed it was going to be bad, but we were enjoying a tipple and wanted something lightweight to watch. Firstly the acting was appalling - two trees would have been more convincing. Then there's the direction - sudden glimpses of scary imaginary things - all the clichéd shock stuff that became annoying many decades ago.
Then we come to the script and the story-line. The whole set-up just would never have happened. We sat there laughing that - no, he wouldn't have done that and no, that bit makes no sense and why didn't she do such and such. Nonsensical from beginning to end.
Suffice it to say that it went downhill as it continued. The reason I didn't give it one star is that we got some entertainment value from picking every scene to pieces. Trying to think if I can say something good about it - nope, I can't.