The Swimmers (2022) is part of the latest addition to Netflix’s catalogue, and it paints a huge contrast when comparing the film to other similar biographical dramas.
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This list will be compressed to only 10 picks, which makes it somewhat difficult when there’s so many amazing movies out there. Nevertheless, I tried to go for variety. So this list may not contain films that rely on jump-scares to sell the ‘scary movie’ checklist.
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Romain Gavras is known for his great visuals and gruesome, but somewhat real depiction of violence, as it was previously critiqued in No Church in the Wild (Kanye West & Jay Z) and Born Free (M.I.A.) Music Videos. Gavras’ latest work, Athena 2022 does not disappoint, and from the very start we, as the audience, are dragged deeper and deeper into the Parisian slumps, where riots against police brutality and racial profiling quickly evolves into straight up terrorism. In other words, this film encapsulates a real issue that affects society nowadays, using parallelisms with other hate crimes around Europe and the US.
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Idris Elba stars in the new “Adventure-Thriller” of 2022, and I’m ashamed to admit that I had bigger hopes for this one.
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They say that nothing ever comes close to the first iteration of a movie… and once again that’s the case after watching the latest addition to the Scream franchise.
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In most cases, a good Sci-Fi film is built around great visual effects. For instance: Jurassic Park (1993), RoboCop (1987), and Return of the Jedi (1983) have one thing in common, amazing visuals, and Phil Tippett as the VFX supervisor and producer.
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I feel like I at least should have mixed feelings about this one, but that isn’t the case. I truly believe that Prey 2022 is a strong contender for worst movie of the year.
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How is it possible for one of the biggest production companies of all time to continue underperforming so badly? Thor: Love and Thunder 2022 is easily one of the worst superhero movies this year, really as bad as they come. I personally think that this is the direction that most of the upcoming Marvel projects will be headed due to their lack of attention to detail, and wanting to achieve a large number of releases on a very tight schedule.
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